ComplianceEffective date19 May 2026US

The Federal Trade Commission begins enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act

In force now

CriticalSevere and certain

Any service that gives people a place to post content needs a way to report a non-consensual intimate image and ask for it to come down, then has 48 hours to remove it and make reasonable efforts to find copies. Civil penalties run to 53,088 dollars per violation. The Commission wrote to major platforms on 11 May and opened a site for complaints about services that did not act.

Build: A reporting path, a 48 hour clock, and copy detection. This one has no size threshold at all.

Who it reaches

It reaches user-to-user, marketplace, messaging and 6 other service types with users in the US, at any size. Any website, app or service that provides a forum for user-generated content.

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