Staff writer with CNAA YouTuber and his assistant have been ordered to pay NT$1 million (US$32 《TAIPEI TIMES》Pair to pay NT$1m to two women in deepfake porn suits - 焦點 - - 趣味新聞網
發表日期 2023-05-15
趣味新聞網記者特別報導 : Staff writer, with CNAA YouTuber and his assistant have been ordered to pay NT$1 million (US$32,548) to each of two women whose likenesses they used in deepfake pornography videos, one of whom was Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie (黃捷). .....
Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie, front, thanks her supporters during an event at her campaign headquarters in Kaohsiung on Nov. 26.
Photo provided by Huang Jie’s office
2022/12/14 03:00
Staff writer, with CNA
A YouTuber and his assistant have been ordered to pay NT$1 million (US$32,548) to each of two women whose likenesses they used in deepfake pornography videos, one of whom was Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie (黃捷).
Chu Yu-chen (硃玉宸), who goes by Xiaoyu (小玉) on YouTube, was arrested in October last year on suspicion of creating and selling deepfake pornography videos of dozens of politicians and influencers, accumulating more than NT$13 million in illicit profits.
In July, the New Taipei City District Court sentenced Chu to five years and six months in prison and his assistant, Chuang Hsin-jui (莊炘睿), to three years and eight months for contravening the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法).
Prosecutors have appealed the ruling on the grounds that the sentences are too light.
The verdicts in two of 21 civil lawsuits also filed in July by Chu and Chuang’s victims were made public on Monday. The complainants were Huang and an unidentified female flight attendant.
In its ruling, the New Taipei District Court said that in today’s Internet-based society, it is nearly impossible to expunge content that has been shared online.
As a result, Chu and Chuang’s victims would continue to be haunted by the misuse of their likenesses for decades, along with harm to their reputations, it said.
Perpetrators of “digital sexual violence” such as Chu and Chuang can often only be prosecuted for contravening the Personal Data Protection Act, the court said.
Due to a lack of legal tools with regard to holding the owners of platforms and sites that disseminate such content accountable, the threat of a civil lawsuit is often the only legal deterrent that potential victims have at their disposal, the court said in its verdict.
Huang thanked the court for serving justice and bringing “some measure of comfort” to the two.
“However, the more pressing issue is still the passage of a digital sexual violence law” in Taiwan, with provisions on preventing and punishing such crimes, and a mechanism for removing the offending content from the Internet, she said.
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Criminal Investigation Bureau police escort YouTuber Chu Yu-chen, known as “Xiaoyu,” for questioning on Oct. 18, 2021, after he was arrested the day before for allegedly creating and selling deepfake porn videos featuring more than 100 Taiwanese politicians and celebrities
Photo: CNA
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