As with other technological-based abuses, such as Deepfake pornography, revenge porn, and upskirting, there was no specific pre-existing law designed to criminalise and prevent cyber-flashing. This means that many police forces were and are required to fallback on more generalised crimes such as harassment and outraging public decency. In New South Wales, Australia, The Crimes Amendment (Intimate Images) Bill 2017 was implemented to make it an offence to "intentionally record or distribute, or threaten to record or distribute, an intimate image of a person without their consent". This legislation would cover cyber-flashing by its prohibition on distributing intimate images without consent. In the UK there has been criticism that "upskirting laws" under consideration would not cover cyber-flashing, as well as other forms of image-based abuse, such as revenge porn. The proposed laws also have a stronger intent prohibition, and it is unclear whether it would cover non-harassment circumstances as well as issues where the receiver of the images has not consented but the "image subject" has. In Singapore, cyber flashing, upskirt photography, and revenge porn has been criminalized since May 2019.