Peru advances bill against sexual deepfakes

Bill targets digital sexual violence

Peru’s Congress received Bill No. 00006-2026-2031-CD, a proposal to amend the Penal Code in order to prevent and punish digital sexual violence using artificial intelligence. The text was submitted by Marleny Bibiana Arminta Valencia, of the Ahora Nación group, and was filed on Aug. 5, 2026, as one of the first bills in the new legislative agenda.

Coverage by El Comercio places the proposal among the first records to open legislative activity in the new period. In the materials reviewed, there was no bill in process specifically aimed at cybersecurity or personal data protection, only this text focused on criminal penalties for sexually explicit content generated with digital tools.

What the bill adds

According to LP Derecho, the draft adds Article 154-C to the Penal Code to punish the nonconsensual creation, generation or alteration of realistic-looking sexual content through digital technologies. The wording also covers the dissemination of that material, with an approach designed to give special protection to women, girls, boys, adolescents and people in vulnerable situations.

The legal coverage says the bill sets a prison term of no less than two and no more than four years, plus a fine, for anyone who creates, generates or alters that content without consent. For distribution, the same coverage notes higher penalties.

Éxitosa Noticias added that the initiative was promoted by Marleny Bibiana Arminta Valencia and has support from other lawmakers, including Bernardino Jair Buitrón Martínez, Freshman Holguín Loaiza and Manrique Olivera. That coverage also broadened the technical scope of the proposal, describing it as a measure to punish the generation and spread of fake sexual images using digital technologies or deepfakes.

Taken together, the coverage points to a bill focused on AI-assisted digital sexual violence, not a general cybersecurity law. For now, the available material places the debate in the criminal law arena and at an early stage of the legislative process.