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Law / United States / Minnesota

Nudification Technology Prohibition

Minn. Stat. § 325E.91 (2026 c 72)

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Data subject residence, Operator establishment
Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not allow a user of your website, application, software, program, or other service to access, download, or use it to nudify an image or video of an identifiable individual, and do not nudify one on a user's behalf.
  • Do not advertise or promote a service that performs either of those actions.
  • A service that requires the user's own substantial technical or artistic skill to produce the nudified result falls outside the prohibition.
  • Violations expose you to an attorney general civil penalty of up to $500,000 per unlawful access, download, or use, and to a private civil action for compensatory damages of up to three times the actual amount, punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney fees.

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
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

The section bars nudifying an image or video of an identifiable individual and advertising a service that does so, and states no duty to keep a log or record of an access, download, or use.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

Drafted with AI

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Research summary

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A person who owns or controls a website, application, software, program, or other service must not allow a user to access, download, or use it to nudify an image or video of an identifiable individual, or nudify one on the user's behalf, and must not advertise or promote a service that does either.

Nudifying means altering or generating an image or video so that it depicts an identifiable individual's intimate part or so realistically appears to that a reasonable person would believe it belongs to that individual. An exemption applies where the service requires the user's own substantial technical or artistic skill to produce the result.

The attorney general may enforce the section and a person who violates it is subject to a civil penalty of up to $500,000 for each unlawful access, download, or use; an individual may also bring a civil action against the violator for compensatory damages of up to three times the actual damages sustained, punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney fees.

House File 1606 was enrolled as 2026 Minnesota Session Law chapter 72, presented to the governor and approved by the governor .

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app generates images with AI or generates video with AI.

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