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Florida digital reality posture profile

Public-source posture estimateNot legal adviceState reviewed2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026

This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Florida, showing where public legislative coverage currently looks more proactive, more reactive, broader, or thinner. It is a structural posture signal based on public disclosures, not a political or legal grade.

Educational summary only

Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.

Overall state posture signal

Mixed posture with narrow tracked coverage.

Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.

Low confidence6 tracked topics

Strongest driver

Deepfakes

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Weakest driver

AI Transparency

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Posture meter

Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.

Mixed posture
ReactiveMixedProactive

Lean

Mixed posture

Breadth

Narrow tracked coverage

State/topic detailFlorida

Florida Synthetic Explicit Content law summary

Specific rule in effect.

Based on direct statute tracking.

Florida makes it a crime to create or share sexually explicit "deepfakes" — digitally altered images that show a realistic version of an identifiable real person in sexual conduct they never performed. That rule, Florida Statute 836.13 ("altered sexual depiction"), has been a third-degree felony since it took effect October 1, 2022, and separately Florida's child-pornography law (Statute 827.071) reaches any image "created, altered, adapted, or modified by electronic, mechanical, or other means" to portray an identifiable minor engaged in sexual conduct, which sweeps in AI-generated and computer-generated CSAM. In 2025 the state layered on more protection: based on public records, "Brooke's Law" (HB 1161, signed June 10, 2025) requires platforms to remove reported AI-generated non-consensual explicit images. As of July 2026, Florida covers both synthetic child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate deepfakes of adults.

Educational summary only

Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.

Why this status

Based on direct statute tracking.

What this means

  • Florida Statute 836.13 is an enacted, in-effect third-degree felony that specifically reaches digitally altered "realistic" deepfake sexual depictions of identifiable people, and Statute 827.071 reaches electronically created or modified depictions of an identifiable minor.

What to do next

  • Read the cited statute or bill text linked below to confirm the specifics for your state.

Citation-grade sources

Official sources

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  • Fla. Stat. § 827.071 — Sexual performance by a child; definitions

    Official text

    Citation: Fla. Stat. 827.071 defines child pornography to include any image 'created, altered, adapted, or modified by electronic, mechanical, or other means, to portray an identifiable minor engaged in sexual conduct,' reaching AI/computer-generated CSAM.

    Observed: 2026-07-07
    Open source

  • Fla. Stat. § 836.13 — Promotion of an altered sexual depiction

    Official text

    Citation: Fla. Stat. 836.13 defines 'altered sexual depiction' as a digital/electronic modification depicting a realistic version of an identifiable person in sexual conduct they did not perform, and makes willfully generating, soliciting, or promoting it a third-degree felony; enacted Ch. 2022-212, effective Oct 1, 2022, amended 2025 (Ch. 2025-99, 2025-133).

    Observed: 2026-07-07
    Open source

  • Florida Senate — 2025 SB 1084 (Sexual Cyberharassment / § 784.049)

    Official text

    Citation: 2025 SB 1084 amends s. 784.049 sexual cyberharassment with an effective date of 10/1/2025; last Senate action 4/29/2025 (laid on table), with companion CS/CS/HB 1451 becoming Chapter 2025-84 on 5/23/2025 — showing 2025 movement expanding coverage to digitally forged intimate images.

    Observed: 2026-07-07
    Open source

Context / secondary sources

1

  • Transparency Coalition — Florida 'Brooke's Law' (HB 1161) now in effect

    Discovery lead
    Observed: 2026-07-07
    Open source

Provenance

Source basis

Official/public links curated

Confidence

High confidence

Review scope

Review centered on currently tracked state-level law

Last reviewed

2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026

References

  • Fla. Stat. § 827.071 — Sexual performance by a child; definitions

  • Fla. Stat. § 836.13 — Promotion of an altered sexual depiction

  • Florida Senate — 2025 SB 1084 (Sexual Cyberharassment / § 784.049)

  • Transparency Coalition — Florida 'Brooke's Law' (HB 1161) now in effect

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DeepfakesAI TransparencyYouth & Social MediaSynthetic Explicit ContentPrediction MarketsAI Companions

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DeepfakesAI ImpersonationAI TransparencyYouth & Social MediaSynthetic Explicit ContentPrivacy, Biometric, or AIPrediction MarketsAI Companions

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