Utah digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Utah, 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
Mixed posture with moderate 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
Moderate tracked coverage
Utah Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Based on public records, Utah treats sexually explicit deepfakes as a crime under two established parts of its Sexual Exploitation Act. Utah Code § 76-5b-205 makes it a crime to distribute a "counterfeit intimate image" — a computer or computer-generated image that has been "edited, manipulated, generated, or altered" to depict an identifiable person in a state of nudity or sexual conduct — wording the Legislature broadened with the term "generated" so it reaches AI-made images. Separately, Utah's child sexual abuse material definition (§ 76-5b-103, as amended in 2025) reaches a "computer or computer-generated image," material that is "artificially generated," and depictions "created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor" is involved. Both rules are in effect today.
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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
- Utah's enacted counterfeit-intimate-image statute (§ 76-5b-205) reaches computer-generated and "generated" deepfake images of an identifiable person, and its child sexual abuse material definition (§ 76-5b-103) reaches artificially generated and computer-generated depictions of minors, so a specific synthetic-media rule is in effect.
What to do next
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Citation-grade sources
Official sources
2Utah Code § 76-5b-103 — Child sexual abuse material definitions (eff. 2025-05-07)
Official textCitation: Utah Code § 76-5b-103 defines child sexual abuse material to include a "computer or computer-generated image," material that "is artificially generated," and depictions "created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor" is engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceUtah Code § 76-5b-205 — Unlawful distribution of a counterfeit intimate image
Official textCitation: Utah Code § 76-5b-205 criminalizes distributing a "counterfeit intimate image" — a computer or computer-generated image "edited, manipulated, generated, or altered" to depict an identifiable person in nudity or sexual conduct; the term "generated" was added to reach AI-generated deepfakes.
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
Utah Code § 76-5b-103 — Child sexual abuse material definitions (eff. 2025-05-07)
Utah Code § 76-5b-205 — Unlawful distribution of a counterfeit intimate image
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