Overview
- The Ministry of Justice unveiled an organic law draft that targets AI-enabled abuses of honor, privacy and image, with the text awaiting debate and approval in the Cortes Generales.
- AI-generated false creations would be deemed illegitimate intrusions, enabling victims to seek judicial protection and compensation scaled to the severity of reputational harm.
- The right of rectification would extend beyond traditional media to large social-media disseminators, covering accounts with over 100,000 followers on one platform or 200,000 across platforms.
- Consent rules feature strict safeguards, including the inability of minors under 16 to consent, periodic renewal requirements and mandatory AI labels when public figures are used for satire.
- Security experts urge companies to bake deepfake fraud into risk management as police keep warning about impersonation scams, while separate reporting from Sonora, Mexico, notes 32 deepfake-sexual cases in 2025 involving girls and young women without formal complaints filed.