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Montana bill would add ‘digitally fabricated’ images to privacy offenses to target sextortion and extortion
Summary
Sponsor Rep. Joe Konauer told the Senate Judiciary Committee HB 514 would expand state privacy-and-communications offenses to cover fabricated or digitally manipulated images used to intimidate, extort or harass. Supporters said the measure fills gaps used against school-age victims; opponents raised procedural and enforcement questions.
Representative Joe Konauer introduced House Bill 514 to the Senate Judiciary Committee as an update to Montana’s privacy-and-communications statutes to capture fabricated digital images and new forms of online extortion.
Konauer told the committee the measure would add language to make it an offense to “publish or distribute or disclose…digitally fabricated or electronic photographs, pictures, images, and films of an identified person” when done with the intent to “terrify,…
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