North Dakota digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for North Dakota, 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.
Last reviewed May 11, 2026.
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
North Dakota Deepfakes law summary
Based on adjacent fraud, privacy, impersonation, or child-safety coverage.
North Dakota's HB 1167, signed by the Governor on April 11, 2025 and updating Century Code Chapter 16.1-10, requires that political communications generated or substantially altered by AI carry a disclosure statement. The rule is squarely about elections — North Dakota hasn't enacted a broader rule covering deepfakes outside political communications.
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
- The protection is narrow but real: it covers political ads and election communications generated or substantially altered by AI, not deepfakes in social feeds, group chats, or apps your kids use.
- The required disclosure statement is the practical compliance line — political communications that carry it are inside the rule; ones that don't can trigger enforcement.
- For AI-fakes outside political communications — including images involving minors or private individuals in non-election contexts — North Dakota hasn't addressed those uses at the state level. Federal rules and platform policies are what apply to those gaps.
What to do next
- Read HB 1167 (or the updated Century Code Chapter 16.1-10) on the North Dakota Legislative Branch site for the exact disclosure language and scope.
- If you're concerned about a non-election use of an AI fake — in a school chat, an app, a private message — North Dakota's HB 1167 isn't the relevant rule. Check federal protections and the platform's own policy instead.
Citation-grade sources
Official sources
1North Dakota HB 1167 — artificial intelligence disclosure statements
Official textCitation: HB 1167 (2025)
Observed: 2026-05-05Bill overview page confirms signed by Governor on 04/11 and filed with Secretary of State on 04/11. Full statute text not retrieved; effective date not confirmed from this source alone.
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Provenance
Source basis
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Confidence
Medium confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
May 8, 2026
References
North Dakota HB 1167 — artificial intelligence disclosure statements
Bill overview page confirms signed by Governor on 04/11 and filed with Secretary of State on 04/11. Full statute text not retrieved; effective date not confirmed from this source alone.
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