Sharing intimate photos of Muslim women without hijabs or people in change rooms could be criminalised in Canberra under a push by the Greens to strengthen privacy laws.

If passed, it would become the strongest privacy laws in the country, extending far beyond criminalising revenge porn.

"We're talking about things that are more than just sexual," Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur said.

"We're talking about things like a photograph potentially of a Muslim woman who normally would wear a hijab when she's out, and her community expects her to wear a hijab.

"That would be for her community potentially an intimate image, but not, of course, a sexual image."

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Last month, United States model Dani Mathers was sentenced to 30 days of community labour after posting a photo of a nude elderly woman inside of a Los Angeles gym.

Ms Mathers uploaded the photo of the woman preparing to shower to Snapchat, with a caption mocking the woman.

Ms Le Couteur said incidents like that would be criminalised under the proposed privacy laws.

"They're not what anyone would regard as sexual, but you would regard them as intimate, and they're certainly intimate images which were non-consensually taken and non-consensually shared," she said.

Making revenge porn a crime

The ACT is also lagging behind some jurisdictions in criminalising revenge porn — including NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

The ACT currently has no laws targeting people who share sexual content without consent.

According to the Greens, four out of five Australians want the sharing of sexual content without consent to be a crime.

"We have done a huge amount of internet [research], largely, but not just internet research ... we're learning from the other jurisdictions," Ms Le Couteur said.

Anti-revenge porn laws look likely to pass in the Territory, considering the Canberra Liberals had already tabled their own legislation last month.

"I hope that regardless of the machinations within the Assembly ... what we'll end up with is tough new laws to deal with the vexed issue of revenge porn in the ACT," Liberal MLA Jeremy Hanson said.

"We'll have a look at what's being proposed in detail ... but I'm keen to make sure this doesn't descend into a squabble."

Ms Le Couteur said it is time the ACT addressed revenge porn.

"We really want to hear from the people of Canberra as to what they regard as reasonable and not reasonable," Ms Le Couteur.