B.C. attorney general advises social media, adult-content sites to comply with intimate images act

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma said on Thursday she has sent a letter to several social media and adult-content sites advising them to comply with the province’s new expedited legal process aimed at preventing people from posting intimate images of others online without their consent.

“With this letter, I expect that social media platforms, dating applications and pornographic websites will do the right thing and align themselves with our legislation to better protect people from this type of sexualized violence and put people before profits,” she said at a news conference in Victoria.

In March, Sharma outlined how the new Intimate Images Protection Act aims to provide a path to justice that

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