The websites have 48 hours to eliminate the law to remove the law after notified.
Sites that allow DeepFake content have 48 hours to remove the Deepfake content or revenge porn after the victim or his or her representative reported it. Illustration. Colourbox, Simo Sahla
US Congress has been screaming through Take It Down -known law, which prohibits, among other things, a porn produced by Deepfake technology and unauthorized sexual material, the so-called revenge porn. Announce US administration.
The law was passed through the Senate in February, and now it also passed the House of Representatives. Next, the law proceeds to the table of US President Donald Trump. The law enters into force after the president’s confirmation and signature.
By law, sites that allow such content have 48 hours to remove the Deepfake content or revenge porn after notifying the victim or his representative. The law also makes such content a criminal. Similar laws have been implemented in several states, but now the law also enters into force at the federal level.
The law includes both Deepfake and Artificial Intelligence Content. The initiative was presented by Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democrats Amy Klobuchar. It has also been supported by the US first woman Melania Trump.
Nudes and other explicit content produced by Deepfake and Artificial Intelligence technologies have been plagued by their victims for years. However, without a federal law, social media platforms and other websites have only rarely been motivated to operate quickly enough to eliminate content and prevent its spread.
Social giant has settled in support of the law. It remains to be seen whether they can moderate content at the speed required by law.
Critics resemble the downside
Freedom of expression and digital rights activists are concerned about the wording of the law and scenarios painted on a broad brush. According to the groups, there are other, completely legal content, for example, on sites favored by sexual minorities, under the guise of the law.
However, the most serious concern is about other freedom of expression: the 48 -hour depreciation time required by law also allows political censorship, according to critics. For example Interviewed by AP According to a digital law expert, such law alone does not prevent abuse, but allows the content to be removed on the wrong basis. When there is little time, soma platforms do not have a realistic opportunity to check whether or not the claim of criminal content is true or not.
In fear of sanctions, depreciation is likely to be automated. In this way, news articles or the political content of social media can be removed from the visible. More aggressive moderation may also, as a matter of current, be the dismantling of encrypted communication applications in order to monitor the content that passes through them.
According to AP, critics also include supporting Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, who are victims of Deepfake and Revenge Porn. According to the non -profit group, the law does not have safety railings to prevent such.
“In the future, Somme platforms may need to remove photographs of high -profile protests, pictures of the police from the metro board, and commercial or amateur porn, which are described with permission,” CCRI comments to AP.