Massachusetts digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Massachusetts, 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
Massachusetts Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Massachusetts makes it a crime to share sexually explicit images of a real, identifiable person without their consent, and based on public records that ban explicitly reaches AI "deepfake" nudes. The 2024 Act to Prevent Abuse and Exploitation (Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2024, signed June 20, 2024, effective September 18, 2024) defines "digitization" to include "the creation or alteration of visual material... through the use of computer-generated images" that would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be an authentic representation of the person shown. The rule targets non-consensual distribution of these images of real people. As of 2026 a separate gap remains: the state's child-sexual-abuse-material statutes have not yet been updated to cover fully AI-generated depictions of minors, though bills to close that gap were pending.
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
- Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2024 is an enacted, in-effect Massachusetts law whose "digitization" definition explicitly reaches computer-generated deepfake intimate images of real people.
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
2Massachusetts Acts of 2024, Chapter 118 (session law text)
Official textCitation: Section 6 of Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2024 amends M.G.L. c. 265, s. 43A(b)(1) and defines 'digitization' to include creation or alteration of visual material through computer-generated images that falsely appear authentic.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceMassachusetts Legislature - Bill H.4744 (193rd General Court)
Official textCitation: Bill H.4744 'An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation' became Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2024; enacted June 13, 2024 and signed by the Governor June 20, 2024 per the bill status history.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1Mass.gov - Governor Healey signs bill banning revenge porn (signing release)
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
Massachusetts Acts of 2024, Chapter 118 (session law text)
Massachusetts Legislature - Bill H.4744 (193rd General Court)
Mass.gov - Governor Healey signs bill banning revenge porn (signing release)
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