DEFIANCE Act of 2025 aims to protect individuals from non-consensual intimate digital forgeries.
The DEFIANCE Act of 2025 seeks to enhance protections for individuals affected by non-consensual intimate digital forgeries. It amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 to allow identifiable individuals to bring civil actions against those who knowingly produce, possess, disclose, or solicit intimate digital forgeries. The bill defines "intimate digital forgery" as any intimate visual depiction created through technological means that is indistinguishable from an authentic depiction.
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