"The bill, sponsored by Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), sought to speed up the removal of troubling online content: non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). The spread of NCII is a serious problem, as is digitally altered NCII, sometimes called "deepfakes." That's why 48 states have specific laws criminalizing the distribution of NCII, in addition to the long-existing defamation, harassment, and extortion"
"Unfortunately, TAKE IT DOWN takes another approach: it creates an unneeded notice-and-takedown system that threatens free expression, user privacy, and due process, without meaningfully addressing the problem it seeks to solve. While Congress was still debating the bill, EFF, along with the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), Authors Guild, Demand Progress Action, Fight for the Future, Freedom of the Press Foundation, New America's Open Technology Institute,"
Both chambers of Congress passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act earlier this year. Senators Ted Cruz and Rep. Maria Salazar sponsored the bill to speed removal of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including digitally altered "deepfakes." Forty-eight states criminalize NCII and existing defamation, harassment, and extortion laws also apply. The bill creates a notice-and-takedown system that may threaten free expression, user privacy, and due process while failing to meaningfully address NCII. EFF and a coalition of civil liberties, press, and tech organizations sent a letter to the Senate outlining concerns. The bill's broad definition could enable bad-faith removals and lacks protections against frivolous takedown requests.
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