On January 29, 2024, British Columbia's new Intimate Images Protection Act
("IIPA") came into force.1
The IIPA and its related resources are intended to provide a
reporting process and support for victims of an offence
colloquially described as "revenge porn".
Revenge porn is the use or dissemination of intimate media, such
as photographs, videos, live-streams, and deep fakes for a
malicious purpose and without the consent of the individual(s)
depicted. As an example, an individual posting nude photographs of
their ex-girlfriend on social media to humiliate her.
In Canada, revenge porn is a listed offence in the Criminal
Code. Section 162.1(1) states that it is a crime for
"[e]veryone who knowingly publishes, distributes, transmits,
sells, makes available or advertises an intimate image of a person
knowing that the person depicted in the image did not give their
consent to that conduct, or being reckless as to whether or not
that person gave their consent to that
