Summary: Voyeuristic Content is defined as image or video content secretively taken of another individual for a sexual purpose.
Voyeuristic Content is typically produced using hidden cameras, or discreet photography Observations; using a zoom lens, or taking a photo when the target is not paying attention.
Actors have been observed attempting to produce Voyeuristic Content targeting women by taking photos up their skirts (called “Upskirting”) or down their tops (“Downblousing”) without their knowledge or consent. Actors also secretively photograph women from afar for sexual gratification (“Creepshots”).
Analysts will need to make an assessment about whether content was produced for sexual gratification, and whether the depicted individual was aware they were being filmed. Analysts may use context of the platform or community the content was posted to, or how it was described by the actor, to make such an assessment.
Tactic: TA18 Drive Online Harms
Parent Technique: T0048 Harass
| Associated Technique | Description |
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| T0048.008 Non-Consensual Publication of Private Intimate Imagery | Sexual imagery depicting an individual which was produced consensually for a private audience, but non-consensually published to another audience should be documented using T0048.008: Non-Consensual Publication of Private Intimate Imagery. |
| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
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| I00250 Chinese actress Jiang Mengjie praised for revealing upskirting blackmail | Chinese actress Jiang Mengjie has been praised for sharing she was the victim of upskirting (T0048.005: Voyeuristic Content) and was blackmailed over footage that circulated of her (T0048.012: Sextortion). Upskirting - involving a device such as a camera phone to take explicit images underneath a victim's clothing without permission - often goes undetected. Jiang Mengjie told her eight million followers on social network Weibo the video had been filmed "many years ago". [...] Jiang further revealed that she had begun receiving private messages blackmailing her over the footage "saying that they would send the video to major film and TV companies and brands, and ruin the rest of my life" (T0153.007: Direct Messaging, T0115.004: Send Message, T0048.012: Sextortion). [Here, a screenshot of messages is shown. In it, a user sends the messages “my patience is limited”, “Sister, don’t be so nervous. I’m just asking for money.” (T0137: Make Money) “You have ignored me for so long, it seems you can afford the contract breach of contract, advertising breach of contract, and your acting career?]” [...] She told her followers: "as a public figure, maybe I can make more people pay attention to such vicious incidents by taking a stand. "It is not our fault that we have been secretly photographed. Our lives should not be affected by this kind of thing." |
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