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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2564 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the production or distribu-
tion of digital forgeries of intimate visual depictions of identifiable indi-
viduals, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 1, 2025 
Ms. MACE 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 pro-
duction or distribution of digital forgeries of intimate 
visual depictions of identifiable individuals, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Victims of Dig-
ital Exploitation and Manipulation Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. DIGITAL FORGERIES OF INTIMATE VISUAL DEPIC-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 88 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 1802. Prohibition of production or distribution of 
digital forgeries of intimate visual depic-
tions of identifiable individuals 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection 
(c), acts with reckless disregard to produce or distribute, 
or causes to be produced or distributed, a digital forgery 
of an identifiable individual, without the consent of the 
identifiable individual, shall be fined under this title, im-
prisoned not more than 5 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—This section shall not apply 
with respect to a distribution made in good faith— 
‘‘(A) to a law enforcement officer or agen-
cy; 
‘‘(B) as part of a legal proceeding; 
‘‘(C) as part of medical education, diag-
nosis, or treatment; or 
‘‘(D) in the reporting or investigation of— 
‘‘(i) unlawful content; or 
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‘‘(ii) unsolicited or unwelcome con-
duct. 
‘‘(2) SERVICE PROVIDERS.—This section shall 
not apply to any provider of a communications serv-
ice with regard to content provided by another infor-
mation content provider unless the provider of the 
communications service recklessly distributes content 
in violation of this section. 
‘‘(c) CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED.—For the pur-
poses of subsection (a), the circumstances described in this 
subsection are that the digital forgery is produced or dis-
tributed using a means, channel, facility, or instrumen-
tality of interstate or foreign commerce or traveled in or 
affected interstate or foreign commerce. 
‘‘(d) EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICATION.—This sec-
tion applies if the individual who has violated subsection 
(a) or the identifiable individual who is a victim of the 
violation of subsection (a) is a national of the United 
States (as such term is defined in section 101(a) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act). 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) CONSENT.—The term ‘consent’ means an 
affirmative, conscious, competent, and voluntary au-
thorization made by the individual free from force, 
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fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion, whether or not 
the individual is a public figure. 
‘‘(2) DIGITAL FORGERY.—The term ‘digital for-
gery’ means any intimate visual depiction of an indi-
vidual created through the use of software, machine 
learning, artificial intelligence, or any other com-
puter-generated means, including by adapting, modi-
fying, manipulating, or altering an authentic visual 
depiction, to appear to a reasonable person to be an 
authentic visual depiction of the individual. 
‘‘(3) IDENTIFIABLE
INDIVIDUAL.—The term 
‘identifiable individual’ means an individual whose 
body appears in whole or in part in an intimate vis-
ual depiction and who is identifiable by virtue of the 
person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing char-
acteristic, such as a unique birthmark or other rec-
ognizable feature, or from information displayed in 
connection with the visual depiction. 
‘‘(4) INTIMATE VISUAL DEPICTION.—The term 
‘intimate visual depiction’ means a visual depiction, 
as that term is defined in section 2256(5), that de-
picts— 
‘‘(A) the uncovered genitals, pubic area, 
anus, or female nipple of an identifiable indi-
vidual; 
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