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Bumble has publicly backed proposals for an EU-large legislation that criminalises gender-primarily based violence, equally offline and on the net. The directive will appear to deal with challenges of cyber-stalking, cyberflashing, cyber harassment, and far more.

The courting brand shared that it has been operating with policymakers and groups in the EU to assure that extra forms of gender-primarily based violence are recognised under law. This consists of non-consensual sharing of intimate images, as effectively as AI-produced nudes.

Bumble highlighted that this work involved a roundtable held in April 2023, wherever it sat down with representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament, HateAid, the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe, and the Minderoo Centre for Technological innovation and Democracy.

The directive will now go on to be talked about by EU Member States, and Bumble claims to continue on doing work with policymakers to assistance tackle gender-centered violence.

The brand’s individual exploration observed that in Germany, France, and Spain more than one particular in two (53%) of women of all ages aged 18-34 have been a sufferer of graphic-based mostly abuse. Of all those women of all ages, 82% claimed sensation much less protected, with some hunting to withdraw entirely from on the net areas.

“Strengthening protections for women online could not be much more urgent”, Bumble highlighted.