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Illinois
Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act, digitally altered images
740 ILCS 190/5, 10, 25 (P.A. 103-294, eff. )
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- Yes
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not intentionally disseminate or threaten to disseminate a private sexual image, including one that is digitally altered, of an identifiable person without their consent.
- Disclosing that the image was digitally altered, such as AI-generated, is not a defense to liability.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Private enforcement only: the depicted individual, through a civil action under section 10; the Act names no public enforcer.
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does the exception in section 15(a)(3) for a dissemination 'related to a matter of public concern' reach a digitally altered sexual image of a public figure, when section 15(d) addresses only a 'private sexual image' and a depicted individual who is a public figure?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 5, 10 and 25 define a digitally altered sexual image and give a depicted individual a civil cause of action against intentional dissemination without consent; they create no duty to log, record, or document an image's alteration or dissemination.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A 2024 amendment added a digitally altered sexual image, defined in Section 5(3.5) as visual media created or substantially altered so that it would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be an authentic depiction of a person, to the images a depicted individual can sue over.
Section 10 gives an identifiable, depicted individual a cause of action against a person over 18 who intentionally disseminates or threatens to disseminate such an image, real or digitally altered (including an AI-generated fake), without consent and knowing or recklessly disregarding that the person did not consent; Section 10(c) specifically bars disclosing that an image was digitally altered as a defense to liability.
A prevailing plaintiff may recover the greater of actual damages or statutory damages of up to $10,000 per defendant under Section 25, plus the defendant's monetary gain, punitive damages, attorney's fees, and injunctive relief.
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