Your Body Should Not Belong to the Internet: Online Bodily Integrity in the World of Deepfake Pornography

To what extent do we own ourselves and our bodies when our privacy is violated online? In this paper, I argue that distancing the online and physical self risks diminishing the impact of privacy violations. I frame the concept of informational privacy in the scope of generated deepfake content online, focusing on pornographic imagery generated unknowingly without the participant’s consent. I propose that informational privacy does not adequately cover the violation of these attacks and offer that ideas around bodily integrity should be extended to attacks on the online self and body, a new form of online bodily integrity.