DEFIANCE Act of 2025 aims to protect individuals from non-consensual intimate digital forgeries by allowing civil actions.
The DEFIANCE Act of 2025, also known as the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images And Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2025, seeks to enhance protections for individuals affected by non-consensual intimate digital forgeries. The bill allows identifiable individuals to bring civil actions against those who knowingly produce, possess, disclose, or solicit such forgeries without consent. Victims can seek damages, punitive damages, and equitable relief, including injunctions to delete or cease displaying the forgeries.
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