Cayman IslandsPenal Code 2019 Revision, indecent photographs and pseudo-photographs of children
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An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Royal Cayman Islands Police Service
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not make, possess, distribute, transmit, sell, advertise, import, export, or knowingly access an indecent photograph, pseudo-photograph, or other realistic image depicting a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, whether or not the image depicts an actual child.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 228A(1): possessing, taking, making or distributing an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for fifteen years. Section 228B(1): making, printing, publishing or possessing child pornography for publication, or possessing or accessing it, is liable to imprisonment for fifteen years; transmitting, making available, distributing, selling, advertising, importing, exporting, or possessing for those purposes, is liable to imprisonment for twenty-five years.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 224(1) and 228A-228B create the pseudo-photograph and child pornography offences and state no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of anything; they punish possessing, taking, making, distributing, or accessing the prohibited material outright, rather than conditioning any safe harbor or defence on documentation.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 228A makes it an offence, liable on conviction on indictment to fifteen years' imprisonment, to possess, take, make, distribute or show an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child.
A pseudo-photograph is defined as an image, whether made or produced by computer-graphics or otherwise, which appears to be a photograph, and is treated as showing a child if the impression it conveys is that the person shown is a child, even where some physical characteristics shown are those of an adult.
Section 228B separately criminalises making, publishing, transmitting, distributing, selling, advertising, importing, exporting, possessing or accessing child pornography, defined to include a realistic image representing a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, whether or not the image depicts an actual child.
The making, possession or access offence carries fifteen years' imprisonment, and the transmission, distribution, sale, advertising, import or export offence carries twenty-five years. The Bill for the Penal Code (Amendment) Law, 2012 provided for new sections 228A to 228D of the Code. The same Bill amended section 224 of the Code to define child pornography and other terms.
The Penal Code (2019 Revision) records the Penal Code (Amendment) Law, 2012 (Law 21 of 2012) as commencing on .
When LexLint raises it
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