Hawaii digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Hawaii, 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
Reactive-leaning posture with narrow tracked coverage.
Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Reactive-leaning
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Hawaii Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on adjacent fraud, privacy, impersonation, or child-safety coverage.
Based on public records, Hawaii's child-pornography statute already reaches synthetic child sexual abuse material. Under Haw. Rev. Stat. §707-750 (Promoting child abuse in the first degree), amended by Act 200 in 2002, "child pornography" is defined to include any "computer or computer-generated image or picture" and any image "created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexual conduct" — so an AI-made or digitally altered depiction of a minor can be charged even if no real child was photographed. That coverage lives inside a general CSAM law rather than a dedicated AI/deepfake statute. For sexually explicit deepfakes of real adults, Hawaii does not yet have a specific criminal law: SB1156, which would create the offense of "unlawful creation or distribution of a sexually explicit deepfake," was introduced in 2025 and carried over to the 2026 session but has not been signed as of July 2026.
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 adjacent fraud, privacy, impersonation, or child-safety coverage.
What this means
- Hawaii's enacted CSAM statute (HRS §707-750) reaches computer-generated and "identifiable minor" modified images, but it is a general child-abuse law rather than a dedicated AI/deepfake statute, and the standalone sexual-deepfake bill (SB1156) remains pending.
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
2Haw. Rev. Stat. §707-750 — Promoting child abuse in the first degree (official HRS)
Official textCitation: HRS §707-750 defines 'child pornography' to include any 'computer or computer-generated image or picture' and material 'created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexual conduct'; computer-generated coverage added by Act 200, Session Laws 2002.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceHawaii SB1156 (2025) — Unlawful creation or distribution of a sexually explicit deepfake (official bill text)
Official textCitation: SB1156 (2025, carried over to the 2026 session) proposes the offense of 'unlawful creation or distribution of a sexually explicit deepfake'; a 'deepfake' is media altered to 'falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record.' Still pending, not enacted as of July 2026.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1Enough Abuse — State Laws Criminalizing AI-generated or Computer-Edited CSAM (Hawaii entry)
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open 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
Haw. Rev. Stat. §707-750 — Promoting child abuse in the first degree (official HRS)
Hawaii SB1156 (2025) — Unlawful creation or distribution of a sexually explicit deepfake (official bill text)
Enough Abuse — State Laws Criminalizing AI-generated or Computer-Edited CSAM (Hawaii entry)
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