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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

DEFIANCE Act of 2025

H.R. 3562 · House bill Crime and Law Enforcement

A Democratic bill with 34 Republican cosponsors · See all 69 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

The DEFIANCE Act of 2025 aims to improve rights to relief for people affected by non-consensual activities involving intimate digital forgeries. This bill expands existing laws regarding the disclosure of intimate images to include digital forgeries created through software or artificial intelligence. It allows identifiable individuals to bring civil actions against those who knowingly produce, possess, or disclose these forgeries. The legislation provides various forms of relief, including liquidated and actual damages. It also establishes protections to preserve the privacy of plaintiffs during legal proceedings.

Yes

  • Scored +10

    Does this give people more control over their personal data?

    The bill provides new legal avenues for individuals to protect their digital likeness and privacy against non-consensual intimate forgeries.

  • Scored +10

    Does this protect people from being watched or searched?

    The bill establishes significant new privacy protections against the non-consensual use of digital forgeries.

  • Scored +5

    Would women be better off under this?

    While gender-neutral, such legislation often disproportionately benefits women who are frequent targets of image-based sexual abuse.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.