Tracker record · Federal · Statute
TAKE IT DOWN Act (2025)
The 2025 federal law criminalizing the publication of nonconsensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated deepfakes, and requiring covered platforms to maintain notice-and-takedown processes for reported imagery.
Status
- Legal status
- In effect (signed May 19, 2025; platform notice-and-removal duties apply from May 19, 2026)
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Persons publishing nonconsensual intimate imagery; covered platforms
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Citation
- Pub. L. 119-12
- Source
- Pub. L. 119-12