Section 15 — Online impersonation

In this Act, “online impersonation” means online activity conducted by one person (called in this section X) in respect of another person (called in this section the victim) which —

(a)involves X pretending to be the victim without the victim’s consent; and

(b)would lead a reasonable person to believe that the online activity was conducted by the victim when this was not in fact the case.Explanation.— Parody, satire or commentary which no reasonable person would believe is made by a person is not online impersonation of that person. Illustration X, a comedian, performs on X’s social media an impersonation of a public figure for the purposes of entertainment and satire, which no reasonable person would believe is performed by that public figure. X’s online activity is not online impersonation.