Law / United States / Minnesota
Nudification Technology Prohibition
Minn. Stat. § 325E.91 (2026 c 72)
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In force 46 days, effective 1 August 2026.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not allow a user of your website, application, software, program, or other service to access, download, or use it to nudify an image or video of an identifiable individual, and do not nudify one on a user's behalf.
- Do not advertise or promote a service that performs either of those actions.
- A service that requires the user's own substantial technical or artistic skill to produce the nudified result falls outside the prohibition.
- Violations expose you to an attorney general civil penalty of up to $500,000 per unlawful access, download, or use, and to a private civil action for compensatory damages of up to three times the actual amount, punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney fees.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
A person who owns or controls a website, application, software, program, or other service must not allow a user to access, download, or use it to nudify an image or video of an identifiable individual, or nudify one on the user's behalf, and must not advertise or promote a service that does either.
Nudifying means altering or generating an image or video so that it depicts an identifiable individual's intimate part or so realistically appears to that a reasonable person would believe it belongs to that individual. An exemption applies where the service requires the user's own substantial technical or artistic skill to produce the result.
The attorney general may enforce the section and a person who violates it is subject to a civil penalty of up to $500,000 for each unlawful access, download, or use; an individual may also bring a civil action against the violator for compensatory damages of up to three times the actual damages sustained, punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney fees.
House File 1606 was enrolled as 2026 Minnesota Session Law chapter 72, presented to the governor May 6, 2026 and approved by the governor May 7, 2026.
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Read the law
enrolled bill text, Minnesota House of Representatives and Office of the Revisor of Statutes
no working codified-page URL for section 325E.91 resolves, so the enrolled bill and the bill's official status page are the primary sources here