Wisconsin digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Wisconsin, 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
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
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Wisconsin Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Wisconsin makes it a felony to create, store, reproduce, share, or exhibit a sexually explicit "deepfake" of a real, identifiable person without consent, under 2025 Act 34 (2025 Senate Bill 33), which took effect October 4, 2025. The law adds "synthetic intimate representation" to the harassment/privacy statute (Wis. Stat. § 942.09) — content generated by technological means using an identifiable person's face or likeness that is realistic enough that a reasonable person would believe it is real. Separately, 2023 Act 224 (Senate Bill 314), in effect since March 2024, created a virtual-child-pornography crime (§ 948.125) that reaches a "depiction of a purported child" — a visual representation that appears to depict an actual child whether or not a real child was involved, covering computer- or AI-generated depictions. As of July 2026, based on public records, both statutes are enacted and active.
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
- Wisconsin has an enacted, dedicated deepfake statute (2025 Act 34, § 942.09) reaching synthetic intimate images of real identifiable people, alongside a 2023 virtual-CSAM law (Act 224, § 948.125) reaching computer-generated or AI depictions of a "purported child."
What to do next
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Citation-grade sources
Official sources
22023 Wisconsin Act 224 (2023 Senate Bill 314)
Official textCitation: Official act page shows 2023 Senate Bill 314 creating Wis. Stat. § 948.125 (possession of virtual child pornography); enacted Mar 27, 2024 and published Mar 28, 2024.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source2025 Wisconsin Act 34 (2025 Senate Bill 33)
Official textCitation: Official act page shows 2025 Senate Bill 33 amending Wis. Stat. § 942.09 to add 'synthetic intimate representation'; approved Oct 2, 2025 and published Oct 3, 2025.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1Courthouse News Service — Wisconsin bans sexually explicit deepfakes
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
2023 Wisconsin Act 224 (2023 Senate Bill 314)
2025 Wisconsin Act 34 (2025 Senate Bill 33)
Courthouse News Service — Wisconsin bans sexually explicit deepfakes
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