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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7567 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the production or distribution of digital forgeries of intimate visual depictions of identifiable individuals, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 6, 2024 

Ms. MACE (for herself, Mrs. LUNA, Mr. GAETZ, and Mr. GOOD of Virginia) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the production or distribution of digital forgeries of intimate 

visual depictions of identifiable individuals, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Victims of Dig5 ital Exploitation and Manipulation Act of 2024’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DIGITAL FORGERIES OF INTIMATE VISUAL DEPIC2 TIONS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 88 of title 18, United 

4 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘§ 1802. Prohibition of production or distribution of 

7 digital forgeries of intimate visual depic8 tions of identifiable individuals 

9 ‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Except as provided in subsection 

10 (b), whoever knowingly or recklessly produces or distrib11 utes, or causes to be produced or distributed, in or affect12 ing interstate or foreign commerce or using any means, 

13 channel, facility, or instrumentality of interstate or foreign 

14 commerce, a digital forgery of an identifiable individual, 

15 without the consent of the identifiable individual shall be 

16 fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, 

17 or both. 

18 ‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.— 

19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—This section shall not apply 

20 with respect to a distribution made in good faith— 

21 ‘‘(A) to a law enforcement officer or agen22 cy; 

23 ‘‘(B) as part of a legal proceeding; 

24 ‘‘(C) as part of medical education, diag25 nosis, or treatment; or 

26 ‘‘(D) in the reporting or investigation of— 


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1 ‘‘(i) unlawful content; or 

2 ‘‘(ii) unsolicited or unwelcome con3 duct. 

4 ‘‘(2) SERVICE PROVIDERS.—This section shall 

5 not apply to any provider of a communications serv6 ice with regard to content provided by another infor7 mation content provider unless the provider of the 

8 communications service knowingly or recklessly dis9 tributes content in violation of this section. 

10 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

11 ‘‘(1) CONSENT.—The term ‘consent’ means an 

12 affirmative, conscious, competent, and voluntary au13 thorization made by the individual free from force, 

14 fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion, whether or not 

15 the individual is a public figure. 

16 ‘‘(2) DIGITAL FORGERY.—The term ‘digital for17 gery’ means any intimate visual depiction of an indi18 vidual created through the use of software, machine 

19 learning, artificial intelligence, or any other com20 puter-generated means, including by adapting, modi21 fying, manipulating, or altering an authentic visual 

22 depiction, to appear to a reasonable person to be an 

23 authentic visual depiction of the individual. 

24 ‘‘(3) IDENTIFIABLE INDIVIDUAL.—The term 

25 ‘identifiable individual’ means an individual whose 


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1 body appears in whole or in part in an intimate vis2 ual depiction and who is identifiable by virtue of the 

3 person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing char4 acteristic, such as a unique birthmark or other rec5 ognizable feature, or from information displayed in 

6 connection with the visual depiction. 

7 ‘‘(4) INTIMATE VISUAL DEPICTION.—The term 

8 ‘intimate visual depiction’ means a visual depiction, 

9 as that term is defined in section 2256(5) of title 

10 18, that depicts— 

11 ‘‘(A) the uncovered genitals, pubic area, 

12 anus, or female nipple of an identifiable indi13 vidual; 

14 ‘‘(B) the display or transfer of bodily sex15 ual fluids— 

16 ‘‘(i) on to any part of the body of an 

17 identifiable individual; or 

18 ‘‘(ii) from the body of an identifiable 

19 individual; or 

20 ‘‘(C) an identifiable individual engaging in 

21 sexually explicit conduct. 

22 ‘‘(5) SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT.—The term 

23 ‘sexually explicit conduct’ has the meaning given the 

24 term in subparagraph (A) of section 2256(2) of title 

25 18. 


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1 ‘‘(6) COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE.—The term 

2 ‘communications service’ means— 

3 ‘‘(A) a service provided by a person that is 

4 a common carrier, as that term is defined in 

5 section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 

6 (47 U.S.C. 153), insofar as the person is acting 

7 as a common carrier; 

8 ‘‘(B) an electronic communication service, 

9 as that term is defined in section 2510; 

10 ‘‘(C) an information service, as that term 

11 is defined in section 3 of the Communications 

12 Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153); and 

13 ‘‘(D) an interactive computer service, as 

14 that term is defined in section 230(f) of the 

15 Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 

16 230(f)). 

17 ‘‘(7) INFORMATION CONTENT PROVIDER.—The 

18 term ‘information content provider’ has the meaning 

19 given such term in section 230(f) of the Communica20 tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f)). 

21 ‘‘(d) EXTRATERRITORIALITY.—There is 

22 extraterritorial Federal jurisdiction over an offense under 

23 this section if the alleged offender or the identifiable indi24 vidual is a national of the United States (as defined in 

25 section 1101(a)(22) of title 8).’’. 


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1 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

2 for chapter 88 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 

3 by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘1802. Prohibition of production or distribution of digital forgeries of intimate 

visual depictions of identifiable individuals.’’. 

4 SEC. 3. SEVERABILITY. 

5 The provisions of this Act shall be severable. If any 

6 provision of this Act, or any application thereof, is found 

7 unconstitutional, that finding shall not affect any provi8 sion or application of the Act not so adjudicated. 

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