Revenge porn could soon be criminalised in NSW.
The state government is considering new laws to go after people who distribute intimate or sexually explicit images of their former love without their consent.
"No one has the right to share explicit photos without consent and new laws will protect people and make it clear this kind of behaviour is totally unacceptable," Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton said in a statement on Monday.
"These images can have a devastating emotional and social effect on the person pictured and can be used as a way to deliberately humiliate, control or harass the intended victim," she said.
Plans for the new laws are part of the government's response to a parliamentary justice committee inquiry into privacy.
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The committee's report will be tabled in parliament on Monday.
The NSW government decision follows Victoria and South Australia, where penalties for distributing such images include large fines and jail terms of up to two years.
