Unanimous Senate Passes Durbin’s Deepfake Porn Bill
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation that would establish a right for victims of deepfake porn to sue violators. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., lauded passage of the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (Defiance) Act (see…
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2406210047), a bipartisan measure that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and ranking member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced. A co-sponsor, Schumer said nonconsensual deepfake porn is a “horrible attack on someone’s privacy and dignity to have these fake images of them circulating online without recourse.” He urged a House vote.