Bill > HR5586

This bill, the "Defending Each and Every Person from False Appearances by Keeping Exploitation Subject to Accountability Act of 2023" or the "DEEPFAKES Accountability Act", aims to protect national security against the threats posed by deepfake technology and provide legal recourse to victims of harmful deepfakes. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring producers of "advanced technological false personation records" (deepfakes) to include clear disclosures and content provenance information, with penalties for failure to comply or for altering such disclosures. 2. Establishing a private right of action for individuals depicted in deepfakes to seek damages and injunctive relief. 3. Authorizing the Attorney General to issue advisory opinions, waivers, and standards related to the bill's requirements. 4. Allowing in rem civil actions against deepfake records in certain circumstances where the producer cannot be directly sued. 5. Amending federal law on fraud and false personation to explicitly cover "false audiovisual identification records" (deepfakes). 6. Directing the Department of Homeland Security to establish a task force to research and develop deepfake detection technologies, and to share information with online platforms to help combat the spread of malicious deepfakes. 7. Requiring online platforms to have the technical capability to insert disclosure information into deepfakes and to have systems in place to detect deepfakes. The bill aims to address the national security and individual harms caused by the proliferation of deepfake technology, while also balancing First Amendment concerns and providing avenues for lawful use of such technologies.

Justice, Military Affairs and Security, Transportation and Infrastructure

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5586/all-info