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Technology-facilitated sex offences, such as upskirting, voyeurism and revenge porn, have been on the rise over the last three years, according to the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware).
The gender-equality advocacy group’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) said it saw 124 – or nearly three times more – cyber-related sexual offences last year, compared with 2016, where it saw 46 cases. The centre saw 99 such cases in 2017.
At an event titled Taking Ctrl, Finding Alt 2019 held at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Paya Lebar yesterday, SACC head Anisha Joseph revealed that image-based sexual abuse – defined as the non-consensual creation, obtainment and/or distribution of sexual pictures or videos of someone else – seen by the SACC has more than doubled over the three years, from 30 in 2016 to 64 last year.
This includes nudes taken with the subject’s consent or without his or her knowledge, like in cases of upskirting or voyeurism.
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