Under current Washington law, though, if someone’s face is used to make pornographic content without their consent, the victim has no legal recourse.
“If you have sexually explicit conduct, the law prohibits people from using or sharing that,” said Russell Brown, executive director of the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. “But if you take and modify it using a real person’s face, putting that on sexually explicit conduct, there’s a loophole there.”
A proposed bill in the Washington Legislature, House Bill 1999, would address this loophole. It would expand criminal penalties under current child pornography laws to include instances in which an identifiable minor’s image was used to digitally fabricate
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