Civil and criminal protections for people targeted by nonconsensual intimate images, sexual deepfakes, impersonation, and harmful unlabeled deepfakes.
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“People should be able to bring a federal court case when someone makes or shares a realistic fake intimate image of them without consent.”
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“Victims should be able to protect their privacy in court and have enough time to sue after discovering image-based abuse.”
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“Courts should be able to make people pay for serious image-based abuse and order them to stop sharing the images.”
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“People who share covered deepfakes without required warnings, or hide those warnings before sharing, could face large civil fines, and federal prison penalties could apply when unlabeled deepfakes are used for serious harms like sexual exploitation, violence, election interference, fraud, identity theft, or foreign political influence.”
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“Federal law should cover deepfake-style audio or video used without consent to assume another person's identity for crimes, certain extreme unprotected content, or regulated national security threats, and it could reach people who make or meaningfully help make unlawful deepfake impersonations.”
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“Companies that provide commercial deepfake-making tools should build in ways to add required labels and digital provenance and warn users about legal job tasks, while commercial websites and apps that host user posts should be able to add labels and provenance to distributed deepfakes and maintain detection systems.”
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“The Department of Homeland Security should create a deepfakes task force, work with agencies, companies, and researchers on detection and national-security responses, report to Congress for five years on foreign threats and detection progress, and set up a way for platforms and news outlets to share warnings about malicious deepfakes.”
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“People should be able to sue in federal court when someone knowingly or recklessly shares their private sexual image without valid consent, if the image shows an identifiable person and the sharing uses the internet or otherwise crosses state or national lines.”
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“People should be able to sue when someone knowingly makes, requests, keeps to share, or shares a realistic sexual deepfake of them without consent, including when the image is labeled fake but still looks real to a reasonable person.”
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“People could face federal criminal charges for posting private sexual images, posting realistic sexual deepfakes, or threatening to post covered intimate images online without consent.”
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“The Federal Trade Commission should be able to penalize covered platforms, including covered nonprofit platforms, when they unreasonably fail to explain the removal process or take down covered nonconsensual intimate images as required.”
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“Federal rules to criminalize sharing intimate images and sexual deepfakes without consent and require platforms to take them down”
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“The Justice Department should give guidance on deepfake rules, create waivers for lawful speech concerns, set technical standards for digital provenance, publish enforcement reports and plans, allow some provenance exemptions by regulation, and designate federal prosecutor contacts for foreign-directed and intimate sexual deepfake reports.”
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“The takedown system should cover public websites and apps that mainly host user content, and services that normally publish or host nonconsensual intimate images, while usually leaving out broadband providers, email services, and mostly editor-selected content services.”
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“After a valid removal request, covered platforms should remove the reported intimate image as soon as possible and within 48 hours, and make reasonable efforts to find and remove known exact copies on the same platform.”
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“Federal deepfake rules should not make illegal content legal just because it has a label, and stricter federal, state, local, territorial, copyright, tort, or false-personation claims should still be available.”
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“A person shown in a covered intimate image, or someone authorized to help them, should be able to ask a platform to remove it by sending a written request with a signature, contact information, enough details to find the image, and a short honest statement that it was posted without consent.”
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“Federal law should set a floor for protection while letting states and Tribes keep or pass stronger rules on intimate image abuse.”
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“Federal sexual-deepfake remedies should not wipe out other federal, state, or Tribal protections, and states and Tribal governments should be able to keep or pass stronger protections for victims.”
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