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Federal laws and regulations regarding the reporting and preservation of child sexual abuse material, including 18 U.S.C. §2258A.
in the , including cases tied to , for possession of animated or AI-generated sexual material that prosecutors treated as child pornography; recent state and federal changes have made such arrests mor...
is a patchwork: federal law already treats AI-generated sexual depictions of minors as child sexual abuse material and bars their creation and distribution, while states vary widely in whether and how...
Federal law criminalizes production, distribution, receipt and possession of child sexual abuse material () with statutory mandatory minimums for many offenses but generally no mandatory minimum for s...
International takedowns of (CSAM) rely on a patchwork of instruments—treaties such as the and UN child-rights instruments, regional regimes like the ’s and proposed CSAM-specific rules, national laws ...
Several jurisdictions have moved to treat AI‑generated sexual images of children as criminal — with the United Kingdom leading with targeted new offences, the European Parliament voting to treat synth...
Reporting shows a patchwork: at least 20 states have enacted laws that expressly prohibit AI‑generated sexual images of minors, but many state codes remain unmodified and therefore do not explicitly m...
Digital-only evidence of access to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) must satisfy established rules of admissibility—authentication, relevance, and reliability—while being accompanied by a defensible...