Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

The Senate passed a bill that could springiness radical who've recovered their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a caller mode to combat back.

The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), would fto victims writer the individuals who created the images for civilian damages. The measure passed with unanimous consent - meaning determination was nary roll-call vote, and nary Senator objected to its transition connected the level Tuesday. It's meant to physique connected the enactment of the Take It Down Act, a instrumentality that criminalizes the organisation of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) and requires societal media platforms to promptly …

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