Protecting Digital Likeness
Your likeness is an external representation of what makes you you: every unique wrinkle, scar, laugh, facial expression. Current technologies have reduced these facets of our identity into digital assets, making it possible to reproduce, distort, and exploit anyone’s likeness quickly and cheaply. Digital “replicas” or copies of you can be used to deceive, humiliate, exploit, and profit.
Tech Justice Law works to make sure that a person’s identity is not exploited by technologies that can manipulate their appearance quickly, cheaply, and without consent. TJL advances legal frameworks that affirm the emotional, reputational, and psychological injuries caused by nonconsensual digital replication. Existing laws often ignore these harms, offering little protection to ever-increasing numbers of people who experience loss of control over their digital identities. Our work insists on a simple principle: your likeness is your own, and violations of that autonomy must carry meaningful consequences.
Join the Alliance
The REAL Alliance brings together advocates fighting to end likeness abuse fueled by “AI”. From face-swapping pornography to voice-cloning scams and beyond, our identities have never been more vulnerable to distortion, manipulation, and weaponization. Now more than ever, we need what’s REAL — Rights to End Abuse of Likeness. The REAL Alliance dissolves barriers between NCII, financial scams, celebrity harms, and artist displacement. Together, we can raise awareness and build support for a basic human right for anyone over their (digital) likeness.
Explore Our Digital Likeness Work
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Join the REAL Alliance
February 26, 2026
The REAL Alliance brings together advocates fighting to end likeness abuse fueled by “AI”. From face-swapping pornography to voice-cloning scams and beyond, our identities have never…
Bill
My Likeness, My Right
February 1, 2026
Recent technologies have made it easy and cheap to clone anyone’s face, voice, or body. These hyper-realistic digital artifacts can make a person seem to be,…
Policy Explainer
My Likeness, My Right Model Bill Explainer
February 1, 2026
This explainer breaks down the new dignity right in TJL’s “My Likeness, My Right” model bill. It highlights important aspects of the law, including how the…
Event
Tech Justice Law Co-Hosts First Annual Global Tech Litigation Convening in Cape Town, South Africa
December 15, 2025
The 2025 Global Tech Litigation Convening responded to the worldwide reach of tech companies by creating space for strategic coordination, network-building, and knowledge-sharing across borders. Co-hosted…
Announcement
Tech Justice Law Project Testifies at Georgia State Senate Study Committee on Impact of AI on Children, Protecting Digital Likeness
October 8, 2025
Atlanta, Ga. – Today, Tech Justice Law Project (TJLP) Executive Director Meetali Jain, Policy Counsel Melodi Dinçer, and TJLP client and parent advocate Megan Garcia testified before a Georgia…
Announcement
TJLP Joins Coalition in Requesting Investigation into xAI’s “Grok Imagine” and its Role in Facilitating Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery
August 14, 2025
On August 14, Tech Justice Law Project joined a coalition of organizations—including the Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reset Tech, Encode AI, and…