A Kaohsiung police officer was indicted today for indecently photographing women and secretly filming in the precinct bathroom, which he used to generate nude images using artificial intelligence (AI).
He also used the pretext of investigation to ask a woman to remove her clothes, using his personal phone to photograph her in her underwear, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office said.
There are a total of six plaintiffs involved in the case, they said.
Photo: Huang Liang-chieh, Taipei Times
Prosecutors said they have requested the Kaohsiung District Court to sentence him to three years and six months in prison and issue a fine of NT$300,000.
The police officer, surnamed Tu (凃), was an officer at Kaohsiung’s Sanmin Police Station, they said.
He was indicted on suspicion of contravening the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法) and for taking sexual images under the Criminal Code, they added.
In July 2023, Tu was dispatched to a car accident in a parking lot, where he asked the victim to raise both of her hands and proceeded to photograph her chest and underarms, they said.
Then in January 2024, another woman was involved in a negligent injury case, they said.
Tu arrived on the scene and followed the woman home, where he asked her to remove her top and photographed her in her sports bra under the pretext of collecting evidence, they added.
In March of that year, Tu responded to a woman’s call about a lost phone, prosecutors said.
He photographed the woman in the police station, then secretly recorded her using the restroom, filming her buttocks and legs, they said.
In September 2024, Tu fed the images he had taken of six women through an AI generator on Telegram to create pornographic content, which he saved to his phone, they added.
Although there was no evidence that Tu had distributed the images, he still greatly infringed on the women’s privacy and autonomy, prosecutors said.
Tu abused his official position, causing deep harm to his victims and greatly diminishing public trust in the police, they added.
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