Taking photographs down a woman’s top without her consent, or ‘downblousing’, could become a criminal offence in England and Wales if the government responds to new recommendations aiming to bring laws about intimate image abuse up to speed with technology.

Following a detailed review, The Law Commission of England and Wales has urged the government to make it easier to prosecute people who take or share sexual, nude or other intimate images of people without their consent in order to widen the scope of what counts as image-based sexual violence.

The government has been told to make ‘downblousing’ and pornographic deepfakes illegal