AI and data laws

311 moving · 704 enacted

Deepfakes

203 on file · 142 became law · 23 still moving · 3 moved in 30 days

China
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AI Legislation

China proposed rules governing artificial intelligence that span data, computing, algorithms, deepfakes, and privacy.

Proposed
United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence (Consent and Misuse) Bill

A bill to make provision about a requirement for consent to generate a likeness of a person using, or with the assistance of, artificial intelligence; to make further provision relating to that requirement; to make provision about civil action in circumstances where that requirement is not met; to m

In committee
United States (federal)

NO FAKES Act

This legislation limits the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence to produce deepfakes and digital replicas.

Failed
California
CaliforniaSB 1000

California AI Transparency Act Revisions

Would recast the California AI Transparency Act, removing the user threshold for covered providers and replacing AI detection tools with disclosure verification tools, as an urgency statute.

Enacted
California
CaliforniaSB 1111

Digital Replicas

Would clarify that the right of publicity and false impersonation laws cover digital replicas of a person's voice or likeness.

Enacted
European Union
European UnionRegulation (EU) 2024/1689

AI Act

Sets EU-wide risk-based rules for AI systems, banning certain practices, imposing requirements on high-risk systems, transparency duties for some AI, and obligations for general-purpose AI model providers.

In force
Minnesota
MinnesotaHF 1606

Nudification technology ban

Bars websites, apps and services from letting users nudify images or videos of identifiable people and from advertising such tools, with a private right of action and attorney general civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation.

In force
European Union
European UnionRegulation (EU) 2026/1744 (COM(2025) 836, 2025/0359(COD))

Digital Omnibus on AI

Amends the AI Act to delay high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028, extend SME relief to small mid-caps, simplify AI literacy and registration duties, widen AI Office oversight, and ban AI nudification and CSAM generation.

In force
Singapore

Online Safety (Relief and Accountability) Act 2025

Creates a Commissioner of Online Safety and Online Safety Commission that can direct takedowns and account restrictions for online harms such as intimate image abuse, doxxing and harassment, and creates statutory torts for victims.

In force
United Kingdom
United Kingdom2026 c. 20

Crime and Policing Act 2026

Broad criminal justice Act that among other things creates offences for making, possessing or supplying AI tools designed to generate child sexual abuse images, possessing guidance on creating such images, and making or supplying purported intimate image (nudification) generators.

In force
United States (federal)

NO FAKES Act of 2026

Would create a federal intellectual property right protecting individuals' voice and visual likeness from unauthorized digital replicas, with notice and takedown rules for platforms.

In committee
Canada
CanadaBill C-16 (45th Parliament, 1st Session), S.C. 2026, c. 19

Protecting Victims Act

Criminal law bill that among other measures extends the offence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images to realistic fabricated depictions of an identifiable person, covering sexual deepfakes.

Enacted
Pennsylvania

Disclosure of AI-generated content

Would treat distributing AI-generated content without a required disclosure as an unfair method of competition enforceable by the Attorney General.

Passed one chamber
Missouri
MissouriHB 2035

Artificially generated material

Would have established and modified provisions relating to artificially generated material, including AI-generated depictions of minors.

Failed
Washington
WashingtonHB 1170

AI content provenance disclosure

Requires providers of generative AI systems to include provenance disclosures in AI-created or AI-modified image, video and audio content and to offer tools to detect them.

Enacted