On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced that deepfake domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com were seized and taken down using the TAKE IT DOWN Act. The seized domains “were being used to publish thousands of digitally forged images and videos depicting famous women as nude and sometimes engaged in
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Privacy Tip #476 – What is a Bikini or Non-nude Deepfake?
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
On January 13, 2026, eight United States Senators sent a letter to Alphabet, Meta, Reddit, Snap, TikTok, and X stating that they“are alarmed by reports of users exploiting generative AI tools to produce sexualized ‘bikini’ or ‘non-nude’ images of individuals without their consent and distributing them on platforms including X and others.” The senators requested…
Lights, Camera, [AI] Action: India’s Recent Celebrity Deepfake Lawsuits
By Roma Patel on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
December 2025 saw India’s courts in New Delhi and Mumbai tackle a new breed of lawsuits: leading Indian cinema celebrities fighting back against unauthorized deepfakes and AI-generated impersonations. Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR Jr.), R. Madhavan, and Shilpa Shetty—all famous Indian actors—filed and won powerful court orders aimed at blocking the spread of synthetic images…
AI Governance Programs Provide a Competitive Advantage
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
In an excellent blog post, “Avoiding AI Pitfalls in 2026: Lessons Learned from Top 2025 Incidents,” ISACA’s Mary Carmichael summarizes lessons learned from top incidents in 2025 using MIT’s AI Incident Database and risk domains. According to Carmichael, an analysis of the incidents showed recurring patterns across different risk domains, including privacy, security…
Cyber Insurer Offers Product for Deepfakes
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Deepfakes continue to be problematic for organizations and individuals. They are hard to detect and hard to respond to when used in an attack against a company.
To respond to this ongoing, and increasingly prevalent, problem, cyber insurer Coalition announced this week that it will expand coverage for “certain incidents where AI and deepfakes lead…
Deepfakes Problematic for Detection + Response
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
OpenAI recently published research summarizing how criminal and nation-state adversaries are using large language models (LLMs) to attack companies and create malware and phishing campaigns. In addition, the use of deepfakes has increased, including audio and video spoofs used for fraud campaigns.
Although “most organizations are aware of the danger,” they “lag behind in [implementing]…
Bipartisan Take It Down Act Becomes Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
On Monday, May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. The Act, which unanimously passed the Senate and cleared the House in a 409-2 vote, criminalizes the distribution of intimate images of someone without their consent. Lawmakers from both parties have commented that the law is long…
Illinois Supreme Court Announces Policy on Artificial Intelligence
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Last year, the Illinois Judicial Conference Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (IJC) was created to develop recommendations for how the Illinois Judicial Branch should regulate and use artificial intelligence (AI) in the court system. The IJC made recommendations to the Illinois Supreme Court, which adopted a policy on AI effective January 1, 2025.
The policy…