{"id":6174,"date":"2026-05-10T15:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:35:07","slug":"s-211-theft-act-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=6174","title":{"rendered":"s.21(1) Theft Act 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in the UK: There are no known, clearly identifiable UK criminal prosecutions, outside deepfake and images creation involving minors, where AI was the central offending mechanism. <em><strong>Does this mean there are no other threats?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Who is accountable for these blackmail-related risks today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/creativecanvasshop-businessman-10190175_1920-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6181 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/creativecanvasshop-businessman-10190175_1920-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/creativecanvasshop-businessman-10190175_1920-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/creativecanvasshop-businessman-10190175_1920-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/creativecanvasshop-businessman-10190175_1920-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/creativecanvasshop-businessman-10190175_1920.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">AI-assisted phishing;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">AI-generated fake documents;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">AI-assisted malware;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">AI-generated false evidence in legal proceedings;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the UK: There are no known, clearly identifiable UK criminal prosecutions, outside deepfake and images creation involving minors, where AI was the central offending mechanism. Does this mean there are no other threats? Who is accountable for these blackmail-related risks today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,95],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-6174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-privacy","tag-prepared"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6188,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}