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Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks ActSection 2 › Proposal

An identifiable individual must appear in the depiction and be marked as themselves

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

An identifiable individual must appear in the depiction and be marked as themselves

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What the document says

“The term `identifiable individual' means an individual-- ``(i) who appears in whole or in part in an intimate visual depiction; and ``(ii) whose face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic (including a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature) is displayed in connection with such intimate visual depiction.”

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

The inserted subsection sets a two part test. The person must appear in whole or in part in the intimate visual depiction, and their face, likeness or other distinguishing characteristic, which the definition says includes a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature, must be displayed in connection with it.

What the document actually says

“The term `identifiable individual' means an individual-- ``(i) who appears in whole or in part in an intimate visual depiction; and ``(ii) whose face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic (including a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature) is displayed in connection with such intimate visual depiction.”

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

The person must show up in the image. Something must mark it as them.

What this is about

That mark can be a face. It can be a birth mark. It can be any other sign people would know.

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    Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, Public Law 119-12, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 55 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ12/html/PLAW-119publ12.htm

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    “An identifiable individual must appear in the depiction and be marked as themselves,” Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/tools-address-known-exploitation-by-immobilizing/proposal/sec02-identifiable-individual-defined/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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