Rights & Ethics

Breach of Privacy

Unlawful disclosure or sharing of private information or AI-altered visual depictions of an individual without consent.

Definitions (2)

The unlawful disclosure or sharing of private information or visual depictions of an individual, especially when such depictions are created or altered by AI to portray the individual in a sexual manner without consent.

An Act concerning crimes and punishments; relating to sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of visual depictions of a child, and breach of privacy; modifying definitions to include artificial intelligence-generated or altered images; providing for criminal penalties.Definition 1 of 2

Breach of privacy, as amended by SB 186, includes the nonconsensual dissemination of visual depictions that have been created or altered by artificial intelligence to portray an identifiable person in a sexual manner. This expands the traditional understanding of privacy violations to cover digitally manipulated intimate content.

An Act concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy; prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement; providing an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy; prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person; relating to affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause; requiring such information to be made available to law enforcement; relating to search and seizure; requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer; relating to release prior to trial; requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses; specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds; requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties; allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances if a surety can show that the defendant was deported from the United States; requiring remission in certain circumstances; prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required; amending K.S.A. 21-5510, 21-5611, 22-2302, 22-2502, 22-2802, 22-2803 and 22-2807 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 21-6101 and 22-2809b and repealing the existing sections.Definition 2 of 2
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