New Hampshire digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for New Hampshire, 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.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Mixed posture
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
New Hampshire Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
In New Hampshire, it is a crime to share a sexually explicit "synthetic image" — a deepfake that digitally alters or creates a realistic but false depiction of a real person's intimate parts or sexual activity without their consent (RSA 644:9-a, added by HB 1319, signed July 3, 2024, effective Jan. 1, 2025; a class B felony). The state separately expanded its child sexual abuse image law so that a digital, computer-generated, or AI-altered depiction that is "indistinguishable from" a real child counts as illegal CSAM (RSA 649-A, amended by SB 564, signed May 31, 2024, effective Jan. 1, 2025). Based on public records, both rules took effect on January 1, 2025 and are active. Together they reach both non-consensual sexual deepfakes of real people and AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
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
- Two enacted 2024 statutes now in effect specifically reach synthetic explicit content: RSA 644:9-a criminalizes non-consensual dissemination of synthetic (realistic-but-false) sexual images, and RSA 649-A treats computer-generated or AI depictions indistinguishable from a child as CSAM.
What to do next
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Citation-grade sources
Official sources
2NH RSA 644:9-a — Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images (synthetic images)
Official textCitation: Official NH statute defines 'synthetic image' and its paragraph II-a criminalizes disseminating a synthetic image of intimate parts/sexual acts; source note reads 2024, 127:1,2, eff. Jan. 1, 2025 (HB 1319, ch. 127).
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceNH RSA 649-A:2 — Child Sexual Abuse Images, definitions (computer-generated / indistinguishable)
Official textCitation: Official NH statute defines covered visual representation to include a computer-generated image that is or is indistinguishable from a child in sexually explicit conduct, and images created/adapted/modified to appear an identifiable child is so engaged; amended by SB 564 (2024), eff. Jan. 1, 2025.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1Citizens Count — NH SB 564 (2024) bill summary
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
NH RSA 644:9-a — Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images (synthetic images)
NH RSA 649-A:2 — Child Sexual Abuse Images, definitions (computer-generated / indistinguishable)
Citizens Count — NH SB 564 (2024) bill summary
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