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Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks ActSection 3 › Proposal

Covered platforms must build a request process within one year

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, section 3, Sec. 3. Written by .

Covered platforms must build a request process within one year

The document says “shallWho acts: covered platformsHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says

“Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, a covered platform shall establish a process whereby an identifiable individual (or an authorized person acting on behalf of such individual) may-- (i) notify the covered platform of an intimate visual depiction published on the covered platform”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 3

The first duty in the section. Within one year of enactment, which the Act's approval line dates to May 19, 2025, a covered platform must establish a process by which an identifiable individual, or an authorized person acting for them, can both notify the platform of an intimate visual depiction published there without their consent and request its removal.

What the document actually says

“Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, a covered platform shall establish a process whereby an identifiable individual (or an authorized person acting on behalf of such individual) may-- (i) notify the covered platform of an intimate visual depiction published on the covered platform”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 3
That sentence, in plain words

Web sites have one year to set this up. A person can point to a private image of them. They can ask the site to take it down.

What this is about

The year runs from the day the law was signed. That day was May 19, 2025. A helper can make the ask for the person.

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  1. The document itself

    Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, Public Law 119-12, sec. 3, 139 Stat. 59 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ12/html/PLAW-119publ12.htm

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    “Covered platforms must build a request process within one year,” Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, section 3, Sec. 3. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/tools-address-known-exploitation-by-immobilizing/proposal/sec03-notice-and-removal-process/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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