What is shared in confidence between two people, should stay in confidence. However, unfortunately not everyone is as noble.
Today's topic at hand is nudes.
We are girls who have either experienced it, or at least known of someone who went through it. This has in one way or another cultivated a sense of fear and insecurity.
But, did you know that you can sue a person should they leak your naked pictures?
Here are a 6 Sections a person can be charged under in Malaysia, check them out.
1. Section 292 of the Penal Code
Section 292 of the Penal Code makes it an offence to sell, l. etfor hire, distribute, publicly exhibit or in any manner put into circulation any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation or figure or any other obscene object.
2. Section 293 of the Penal Code
Whoever sells, lets to hire, distributes, exhibits or circulates to any person under the age of twenty years any such obscene object as is referred to in the last preceding section, or offers or attempts so to do, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or with fine or with both.
3. Section 509 of the Penal Code
In Malaysia, under Section 509 of the Penal Code, any person who insults the modesty of any woman by word, through sound, gesture or exhibits any object intentionally, shall be punished for a term which may extend to five years or be fined or both.
4. Section 211 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998
Section 211: Prohibition on provision of offensive content
No content applications service provider or other person using a content applications service, shall provide content which is indecent, obscene, false, menacing, or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person.
5. Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998
Section 233(2) prohibits knowingly using a network service or applications service to provide obscene communication to a person for commercial purposes or permitting a network service or applications service under the person's control to be used for that purpose.
Ostensibly, this is an anti-pornography provision.
6. Section 5 of the Film Censorship Act 2002
(5) In this section, "compoundable offence" means an offence which has been prescribed by regulations made under this Act to be an offence which may be compounded.
Now, you know what to do.