HR 633
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Makes it a federal crime to publish nonconsensual intimate images of a person, including AI-generated fakes, and requires online platforms to remove reported images within 48 hours.
Official title: TAKE IT DOWN Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
22-JAN-2025
Referred
22-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
08-APR-2025
Reported
28-APR-2025
On the calendar
28-APR-2025
- Makes it unlawful to knowingly publish an authentic or digitally forged intimate image of an adult without consent, punishable by up to 2 years in prison, or up to 3 years when the person depicted is a minor.
- Sets prison terms of up to 18 months for threats to publish a digital forgery of an adult, and up to 30 months for threats involving a minor, made to intimidate, coerce, or extort.
- Requires covered websites and apps to create a notice-and-removal process, remove a valid request within 48 hours, and make reasonable efforts to remove identical copies.
- Directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the platform requirements, treating a failure to reasonably comply as an unfair or deceptive practice.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (22-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 28-APR-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
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