SamoaCrimes Act 2013, child pornography offence reaching synthetic and represented depictions
Crimes Act 2013, No. 10 (Samoa), s. 82
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An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Samoa Police Service
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not produce, distribute, exhibit, possess, communicate, or knowingly access any pornographic material, including a computer-generated, simulated, or synthetic image, that depicts, presents, or represents a child, a person appearing to be a child, or an image representing a child, engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
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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 82(1) makes it an offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years, for a person without lawful justification to sell, deliver by way of hire, distribute, exhibit, print, possess, communicate, produce, offer, procure, or knowingly access indecent material on a child, including child pornography. No provision in section 82 states a fine as an alternative to imprisonment, so the sole sanction is the imprisonment term.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 82 defines the offence, its indecent-material and child pornography definitions, and its penalty; it states nothing about logging, record-keeping, or an audit trail.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 82(1) makes it an offence, punishable by imprisonment of up to 7 years, for a person without lawful justification to sell, distribute, exhibit, print, possess, communicate, produce, offer, or knowingly access indecent material on a child, including through an electronic system.
Section 82(2) defines child pornography as pornographic material that depicts, presents, or represents a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, a person appearing to be a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, or images representing a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and includes any audio, visual, or text pornographic material, so the offence reaches a computer-generated, simulated, or otherwise synthetic depiction of a child in sexually explicit conduct as well as a photograph of a real child. The section defines a child as a person 16 years and under.
When LexLint raises it
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