Código Penal Federal, Violación a la Intimidad Sexual (Arts. 199 Octies a 199 Decies), including manipulated or non-corresponding depictions
Código Penal Federal Título Séptimo Bis, Capítulo II, arts. 199 Octies, 199 Nonies, 199 Decies, adicionados por decreto publicado en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el 1 de junio de 2021
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In force since 2 June 2021.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not create, distribute, share, or publish images, videos, or audio depicting a person's intimate sexual content without their consent, approval, or authorisation.
- Where the depicted person's face, voice, or likeness does not actually correspond to the identified person, such as a manipulated or AI-generated depiction, the same criminal prohibition and penalty apply as for genuine, unaltered intimate sexual content.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 199 Octies and Article 199 Nonies each carry 3 to 6 years' imprisonment and a fine of 500 to 1,000 times the Unidad de Medida y Actualización (UMA). Article 199 Decies increases the minimum and maximum of that range by up to one half for the aggravating circumstances it lists (a spouse, partner, or person of trust; a public servant acting in that capacity; a victim unable to understand or resist; non-lucrative or lucrative benefit; or an attempt on the victim's own integrity or life as a consequence). No penalty_structure object is coded here because the fine is denominated in UMA multiples rather than a fixed peso amount, and the statute itself states no peso conversion.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 199 Octies criminalises, for any person, divulging, sharing, distributing, or publishing images, videos, or audio of intimate sexual content of an adult without their consent, approval, or authorisation, and separately criminalises video-recording, audio-recording, photographing, printing, or producing such content of a person without their consent, approval, or authorisation, each carrying 3 to 6 years' imprisonment and a fine of 500 to 1,000 times the Unidad de Medida y Actualización (UMA).
Article 199 Nonies imposes the same penalties where the intimate sexual images, videos, or audio disseminated, shared, distributed, or published do not actually correspond to the person indicated or identified in them: the article's text requires only that the disseminated content not correspond to the identified person, without regard to how the non-corresponding depiction was produced, so it reaches a manipulated, fabricated, or AI-synthesised depiction of a person's face or voice in intimate sexual content on the same terms as any other non-corresponding depiction.
Article 199 Decies increases the minimum and maximum penalty by up to one half where the offence is committed by a spouse, partner, or person in a relationship of trust with the victim; by a public servant in the exercise of their functions; against a person unable to understand or resist the act; for non-lucrative benefit; for profit; or where the victim, as a consequence of the offence, attempts against their own physical integrity or life.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Código Penal Federal, official consolidated text on the Cámara de Diputados' LeyesBiblio