Nonconsensual Intimate Image & Deepfake Disclosure Remedies

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To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2026-07-21 — Safeguarding Against Fabricated Exploitation Through Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026: 2026 — Safeguarding Against Fabricated Exploitation Through Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026 (S5057) introduced and referred to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, targeting AI-enabled fabricated exploitation as a complement to existing NO FAKES / TAKE IT DOWN / DEFIANCE deepfake remedies. (novelty: 3) (novelty: 3)
• 2025-05-19 — TAKE IT DOWN Act: TAKE IT DOWN Act enacted as the first federal criminal ban on nonconsensual publication of intimate visual depictions (including AI-generated deepfakes) and imposes a mandatory 48-hour takedown obligation on covered platforms after victim notice. (novelty: 4)
• 2025-06-04 — Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act: cross-connection with law-enforcement-doxxing-protection: Both address federal remedies for nonconsensual disclosure of personal information, differing in the covered class (law enforcement occupational status vs. intimate imagery of any subject). (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-23 — A bill to prevent the distribution of intimate visual depictions without consent.: Senate bill S5129 introduced to prevent distribution of intimate visual depictions without consent; referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2025-05-21 — DEFIANCE Act of 2025: DEFIANCE Act of 2025 would create a federal civil cause of action against those who knowingly produce, disclose, possess with intent to disclose, or solicit nonconsensual intimate digital forgeries (AI deepfakes), adding punitive damages, disgorgement of attributable profits, and an extended limitations period to existing nonconsensual intimate-image remedies. (novelty: 3)

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