Maryland digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Maryland, 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.
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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
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Narrow tracked coverage
Maryland Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Maryland makes it a crime to distribute a sexually explicit deepfake of a real person without consent. A 2025 amendment (Senate Bill 360, Chapter 219, signed April 22, 2025 and effective July 1, 2025) rewrote the state's revenge-porn statute, Criminal Law 3-809, so a covered "visual representation" now includes an image "created with or without using other existing depictions of the person that is indistinguishable from the person" — language that reaches AI-generated and digitally manipulated images, not just real photos. Separately, Maryland's child-pornography possession law (Criminal Law 11-208) already reaches a "computer-generated image that is indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable child." Based on public records as of July 2026, both protections are enacted and in effect.
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
- Maryland's revenge-porn statute (3-809, amended by SB 360 in 2025) and its CSAM possession law (11-208) both reach computer-generated images indistinguishable from a real person or child, and both are enacted and in effect.
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
2Maryland Code, Criminal Law 11-208 - statute text
Official textCitation: Criminal Law 11-208 bars knowingly possessing a 'computer-generated image that is indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable child under the age of 16 years' engaged in prohibited conduct.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceMaryland General Assembly - SB 360 (2025), Chapter 219 details
Official textCitation: SB 360 (Chapter 219) amends Criminal Law 3-809, defining 'visual representation' to include an image created that is 'indistinguishable from the person'; approved by Governor 4/22/2025, effective 7/1/2025.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
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Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
Maryland Code, Criminal Law 11-208 - statute text
Maryland General Assembly - SB 360 (2025), Chapter 219 details
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