Photo: Lifestyle discover/Shutterstock.com Deepfake Harassment Case Highlights Need for New Tech Law
"You don't need a newfangled, digital society law to deal with the Bucks County case," said Anita Allen, a professor of privacy law and ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. "But if we're going to live in a world where deepfaking is available to everyone, we might well need state and federal statutes that deal with deepfakes and dealing with false images or facsimiles of people."
March 19, 2021 at 02:08 PM
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In the wake of a Bucks County woman's indictment on charges of harassment stemming from allegedly creating deepfake videos of members of her daughter's cheerleading squad in compromising situations, legal experts have observed that cases involving the technology occupy a legal gray area.
Furthermore, some say that while the laws on the books are, in principle, adequate to deal with the general issues presented in deepfake cases—like harassment or misuse of a likeness—they need tweaking to deal with the specifics unique to deepfake technology.
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