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Take It Down Act: U.S. enacts law targeting sexually explicit deepfakes and “revenge porn”

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On May 19th, President Trump signed a new federal law targeting sexually explicit deepfakes and other intimate visual content posted online without consent. The law imposes time-sensitive takedown obligations on certain...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The “TAKE IT DOWN Act” Goes Up to President Trump’s Desk for Signature

On April 28, 2025, Congress passed the “TAKE IT DOWN Act.” In addition to criminalizing intentional publication of non-consensual intimate imagery, including computer-generated intimate imagery (collectively, NCII), the bill...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Online Safety Bill – An Expansion of Criminal Liability for Tech Bosses

The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded a point to rebel Conservative MPs who were backing an amendment to the Online Safety Bill (the “OSB”) this week, which may result in executives at technology companies facing...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK’s Proposed “Online Harms” Compliance and Enforcement Regime Will Target Platforms

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UK publishes White Paper with hard-hitting regulatory proposals to tackle online harms. On 8 April 2019, the Home Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published an “Online Harms White Paper”,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Jail Time for Executives? Federal Privacy Proposals Have Teeth

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2019 will bring significant privacy law changes in the U.S. These changes will require significant compliance efforts by companies operating in the U.S. this year. It is still an open question as to whether those compliance...more

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