{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-15-75-310","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 15-75-310","heading":"Definitions.","body":"For the purposes of this article:\n(1) \"Child\" means an unemancipated individual who is less than eighteen years of age.\n(2) \"Consent\" means affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization by an individual with legal capacity to give authorization.\n(3) \"Depicted individual\" means the individual whose body is shown, in whole or in part, in an intimate image.\n(4) \"Disclosure\" means transfer, publication, or distribution to another person.\n(5) \"Harm\" means physical harm, economic harm, and emotional distress whether or not accompanied by physical or economic harm.\n(6) \"Identifiable\" means recognizable by a person other than the depicted individual:\n(a) from an intimate image itself; or\n(b) from an intimate image and identifying characteristic displayed in connection with the intimate image.\n(7) \"Identifying characteristic\" means information that may be used to identify a depicted individual.\n(8) \"Individual\" means a human being.\n(9) \"Intimate image\" means:\n(a) a photograph, film, video recording, or other similar medium, including any still or videographic image that is indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the individual, and that is generated or substantially modified using machine learning techniques or any other computer-generated or machine-generated means to falsely depict an individual's appearance or conduct; and\n(b) that shows:\n(i) the uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus, or female post-pubescent nipple of a depicted individual; or\n(ii) a depicted individual engaging in or being subjected to sexual conduct.\n(10) \"Parent\" means an individual recognized as a parent under the laws of this State.\n(11) \"Person\" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.\n(12) \"Private\" means:\n(a) created or obtained under circumstances in which the depicted individual had a reasonable expectation of privacy; or\n(b) made accessible through theft, bribery, extortion, fraud, false pretenses, voyeurism, or exceeding authorized access to an account, message, file, device, resource, or property.\n(13) \"Sexual conduct\" means any act including, but not limited to:\n(a) masturbation;\n(b) genital, anal, or oral sex;\n(c) sexual penetration of, or with, an object;\n(d) bestiality; or\n(e) the transfer of semen onto a depicted individual.","path":["Title 15 - CIVIL REMEDIES AND PROCEDURES","CHAPTER 75 Suits Involving Miscellaneous Acts of Wrongful Conduct","ARTICLE 3 Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c075.php","current_through":"2026 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-25T03:15:45Z","sha256":"d44e68265b7c55865da12df6fabdb445248b275b201ab15c8b46707a2c0e5008","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-15-75-60","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-15-75-320"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}