TAKE IT DOWN Act
Federal law (Public Law 119-12, Senate Bill 146 of the 119th Congress), signed May 19, 2025, criminalizing the knowing publication of non-consensual intimate images of real, identifiable people, including AI-generated ones, and requiring covered platforms to operate a notice-and-removal process, a requirement in force since May 19, 2026.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Senior AI Scam Defense.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
Public Law 119-12, signed May 19, 2025 and led by Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar, criminalizing distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery including AI-generated deepfakes and separately requiring covered platforms to remove it within 48 hours of a victim's notice under FTC enforcement; referenced in Section 3P as a second, independent confirmation of this topic's five-frame pattern and owned in depth as a centerpiece anchor by a sibling program.
Federal law (Public Law 119-12, Senate Bill 146 of the 119th Congress), signed May 19, 2025, criminalizing the knowing publication of non-consensual intimate images of real, identifiable people, including AI-generated ones, and requiring covered platforms to operate a notice-and-removal process, a requirement in force since May 19, 2026.
Federal legislation signed in May 2025 that criminalizes publishing real or AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery of a minor and requires platforms to remove a reported image within 48 hours.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- Age Gates, Young Learners, and Student Safety · Bonus: AI for Educators, Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
- Same Issue, Five Value Propositions: Script Templates by Audience · Ethics as Sustainable Strategy, The AI Lobbyist: Certified AI Policy Strategist
- A face that never existed, generated while you watch · The Demystification Lab, Senior AI Scam Defense
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where TAKE IT DOWN Act starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Designs safeguards, family protocols and reporting paths for older adults, minors and people who cannot challenge an automated outcome.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Knows how a rule becomes a rule, drafts comments for the record that get read, and prepares testimony and briefings for hearings.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- AI Policy Analystneeds working knowledge · 7 open postings this week
- Ethical AI Specialistneeds working knowledge · 5 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: Elder Justice Act; EU AI Act Article 5 vulnerability prohibitions; Administrative Procedure Act.
One interview question about it
How do you protect people who cannot easily protect themselves from AI-driven scams and harm, without treating them as helpless?
Asked of candidates for protecting vulnerable people from ai harm. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Elder services, social work, banking front line and fraud teams carries it as a claim to back up: Safeguarding vulnerable people is the profession.
- Policy, legislative and government affairs staff carries it as work you can show: Comments for the record and hearing prep are your artifacts.
- A public policy, political science or international relations degree carries it as a claim to back up: Rulemaking and the legislative process were taught, not yet worked.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.