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Deepfakes Law

China Bans Posting Of Deepfakes Without Proper Disclosure

The government of China is about to bring about rules that will make it a criminal offense to post a deepfake video or fake news without proper disclosure or label. According to a Reuters report, the new law will come into effect from January 1, 2020. It tries to tackle the problem of misinformation in […]

New Virginia Law Promises 1 Year Prison Time For Deepfake Revenge Porn

Over the last couple of years, a new cyber threat has sprouted in the form of deepfakes, and more recently, deepnudes. The name deepfake is derived from “fake” and “deep learning” on which the tech is based. These are computer-generated imagery where one can easily replace someone’s face in a video or make them unclothed […]