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State/Terr	AI Scope	Relevant Law	Law Link	Effective Date	Key Requirements	Enforcements & Penalties
Minnesota	AI Intimate Images	Non-Consensual Dissemination of a Deepfake	HF 1370	August 1, 2023	• Makes non-consensual dissemination of a deep fake a civil offense when the deepfake realistically depicts an intimate part of the non-consenting individual or the non-consenting individual engaging in a sexual act. The act applies to an individual who can be identified either by their features or from personal information displayed in connection with the deepfake.	Civil penalty of up to $100,000.00, and injunctive relief, including up to a $1000 daily fine for failure to comply.
Minnesota	Automated Decision-Making	Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act	Minn. Stat. § 325O.01 et seq.	July 31, 2025	• Provides consumers the right to opt-out of any form of automated processing of personal data to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable natural person’s economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer (i.e., the provision or denial of financial or lending services, housing, insurance, education enrollment or opportunity, criminal justice, employment opportunities, health care services, or access to essential goods or services). • Requires a data protection assessment of each processing activity involving such automated processing of personal data in certain circumstances. • Provides consumers the right to question the result of such automated processing, to be informed of the reason that the process resulted in the decision, and, if feasible, to be informed of what actions the consumer might have taken to secure a different decision and the actions that the consumer might take to secure a different decision in the future. • Provides consumers the right to review the consumer’s personal data used for such automated processing and, if the decision was based upon inaccurate personal data, the right to have the data corrected and the decision reevaluated based upon the corrected data. Other obligations and restrictions may apply depending on the type of data processed.	Up to $7,500 per violation.
Minnesota	AI Transparency	Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act	SF 4097	July 1, 2025	• Imposes obligations on certain social media companies to provide transparency regarding the company’s algorithmic ranking system through a public and conspicuous post on its website (including how the company’s assessments of the quality of content and users’ expressed preference regarding content are weighted in relation to other signals in the system).	Not specified.

State/Terr

AI Scope

Relevant Law

Law Link

Effective Date

Key Requirements

Enforcements & Penalties

Minnesota

AI Intimate Images

Non-Consensual Dissemination of a Deepfake

HF 1370

August 1, 2023

• Makes non-consensual dissemination of a deep fake a civil offense when the deepfake realistically depicts an intimate part of the non-consenting individual or the non-consenting individual engaging in a sexual act. The act applies to an individual who can be identified either by their features or from personal information displayed in connection with the deepfake.

Civil penalty of up to $100,000.00, and injunctive relief, including up to a $1000 daily fine for failure to comply.

Minnesota

Automated Decision-Making

Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act

Minn. Stat. § 325O.01 et seq.

July 31, 2025

• Provides consumers the right to opt-out of any form of automated processing of personal data to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable natural person’s economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer (i.e., the provision or denial of financial or lending services, housing, insurance, education enrollment or opportunity, criminal justice, employment opportunities, health care services, or access to essential goods or services).
• Requires a data protection assessment of each processing activity involving such automated processing of personal data in certain circumstances.
• Provides consumers the right to question the result of such automated processing, to be informed of the reason that the process resulted in the decision, and, if feasible, to be informed of what actions the consumer might have taken to secure a different decision and the actions that the consumer might take to secure a different decision in the future.
• Provides consumers the right to review the consumer’s personal data used for such automated processing and, if the decision was based upon inaccurate personal data, the right to have the data corrected and the decision reevaluated based upon the corrected data.

Other obligations and restrictions may apply depending on the type of data processed.

Up to $7,500 per violation.

Minnesota

AI Transparency

Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act

SF 4097

July 1, 2025

• Imposes obligations on certain social media companies to provide transparency regarding the company’s algorithmic ranking system through a public and conspicuous post on its website (including how the company’s assessments of the quality of content and users’ expressed preference regarding content are weighted in relation to other signals in the system).

Not specified.

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