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Law enforcement and intelligence activity is excepted

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

Law enforcement and intelligence activity is excepted

The document says “shall notWho acts: law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies of the United StatesHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply to-- ``(i) a lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of-- ``(I) a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State; or ``(II) an intelligence agency of the United States;”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 2

The first of the exceptions to both offenses in paragraph (2). Lawfully authorized investigative, protective or intelligence activity of a Federal, State or local law enforcement agency, or of a United States intelligence agency, is outside the prohibition.

What the document actually says

“Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply to-- ``(i) a lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of-- ``(I) a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State; or ``(II) an intelligence agency of the United States;”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

These rules do not cover police work. They do not cover spy work either.

What this is about

The work must be allowed by law. The agency can be Federal, State, or local.

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