"The South Korean government is facing fresh calls to take urgent action over an 'epidemic' of spycam sex crimes that are ruining women’s lives and tragically leading to deaths by suicide.
A new investigation released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch casts a confronting spotlight on the trauma of victims of online sexual violence, where images captured without consent are shared non-consensually, or sometimes manipulated or faked.
South Korean women and girls have been struggling for years against a growing problem of voyeurism and a rise in digital sex crimes, including the use of high-tech equipment known as “spycams” to take illicit intimate pictures, leaving many afraid of using public facilities like bathrooms.
The misuse of spycams is so prolific it has been dubbed an “epidemic” and it prompted tens of thousands of women to march in Seoul in 2018 in a wider protest against entrenched misogyny and a lack of gender equality."
From article in today's Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/16/digital-sex-crimes-driving-women-suicide-south-korea/