Global Activist/Researcher | UWA Tech & Policy Lab
For a decade, Noelle Martin has been the target
of perpetrators fabricating and distributing fake pornographic
images and deepfakes of her without her consent. She has turned
her survival story into a global fight for justice.
She was awarded Young Western Australian of the Year in 2019,
and listed as an honoree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list of
2019 for her efforts to help criminalise image-based sexual abuse
across Australia.
She was the only Australian to stand with two separate Attorney
Generals – in New South Wales and Western Australia – at history-
making press conferences announcing new criminal offences to
distribute, record, and threaten to distribute or record, intimate
images and videos without consent.
Beyond Australia, she has fought for justice in news media all over
the world: from the US, UK, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, New
Zealand, France, Spain, and Ireland, to name a few. Her work has
reached the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the BBC,
among countless others.
She has served as an advisor for the Pathways to Digital Justice
project with the World Economic Forum. And was quoted by the
FBI and Homeland Security in an official report on deepfakes after
being invited to speak with them on the matter.