What Are AI Consent Requirements?

Definition

Consent requirements may apply, calling for clear permission before certain AI processing, often video interviews or biometric analysis. Silence or pre-checked boxes rarely qualify where these rules apply.

See also our AI compliance glossary for short definitions of common terms.

Which regulations require this

• Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)

  Illinois BIPA may apply to written consent before collecting fingerprints, facial scans, voiceprints, iris scans, or...

  ILAI-specificHighIn effect
• California Companion Chatbots Act (SB 243)

  California's Companion Chatbot Act may apply to operators of AI chatbots designed for ongoing social interaction. Whe...

  CAAI-specificHighIn effect
• Connecticut Public Act 25-113 (SB 1295) CTDPA and profiling amendments

  Connecticut's omnibus bill dramatically expands the CTDPA. Lowers the applicability threshold from 100,000 to 35,000...

  CTPrivacy ADMHighUpcoming
• Texas TRAIGA (Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, HB 149)

  Texas RAIGA (HB 149) prohibits AI systems from intentionally manipulating behavior to cause harm, infringing constitu...

  TXAI-specificMediumIn effect
• Washington My Health My Data Act

  Broad health data privacy law covering health data collected outside HIPAA, including data from health-related AI too...

  WAPrivacy ADMMediumIn effect
• Tennessee ELVIS Act (Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security)

  First enacted US legislation specifically designed to protect musicians from unauthorized AI voice synthesis. Covers...

  TNAI-specificMediumIn effect
• California Deepfake Pornography Expansion (AB 621)

  Expands civil remedies for non-consensual deepfake pornography. Broadens definitions, adds liability for deepfake por...

  CAAI-specificMediumIn effect
• Texas TRAIGA Biometric and AI Training Amendments (HB 149, 89th Legislature)

  Amends the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI) and related Business and Commerce Code provisions...

  TXAI-specificMediumIn effect
• Illinois Right of Publicity Act, Digital Replica Amendment (HB 4875)

  Prohibits unauthorized AI-generated digital replicas of individual voices, images, and likenesses. Holds liable anyon...

  ILAI-specificMediumIn effect
• California Digital Replicas of Deceased Performers Act (AB 1836)

  Restricts commercial uses of realistic AI-generated replicas of deceased performers' voices or likenesses in audiovis...

  CAAI-specificMediumIn effect
• Illinois Digital Forgeries Act (HB 2123)

  Extends nonconsensual intimate image protections to AI-generated deepfakes. Provides civil remedies including statuto...

  ILAI-specificLowIn effect
• Washington Fabricated Intimate Images (2024)

  Criminalizes creation and distribution of AI-generated intimate images without consent. Provides civil remedies for v...

  WAAI-specificLowIn effect
• Maryland Nonconsensual Pornography Deepfake Expansion (SB 360)

  Expands Maryland's revenge porn statute to cover AI-generated and computer-generated sexual imagery. Strengthens civi...

  MDAI-specificLowIn effect
• New York Deceased Performer Digital Replicas (SB 8391)

  Amends the Right of Publicity law to protect digital replicas of deceased performers. Provides civil remedies for una...

  NYAI-specificLowIn effect
• Utah Unauthorized AI Impersonation (SB 271)

  Expands Utah's abuse of personal identity law to cover AI-generated deepfakes and digital replicas used for commercia...

  UTAI-specificLowIn effect
• Illinois AI Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42)

  Requires employers using AI to analyze video interviews to notify candidates, explain how AI is used, and obtain cons...

  ILAI-specificLowIn effect
• Illinois Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act (HB 4762)

  Protects individual digital voice and likeness in contracts. Contract provisions for digital replica use are unenforc...

  ILAI-specificLowIn effect
• New York Digital Replica Contract Protections (S7676B)

  Establishes protections for individuals regarding the use of digital replicas in professional contracts. Requires spe...

  NYAI-specificLowIn effect
• California Digital Replica Contract Protections (AB 2602)

  Makes contract terms unenforceable when they allow digital replicas of a performer without the performer giving speci...

  CAAI-specificLowIn effect
• Maryland HB 1202 (Facial Recognition in Hiring)

  Prohibits creating facial templates of job applicants during interviews without signed consent. Where applicable, the...

  MDAI-specificLowIn effect

Which states reference this obligation

What you should do next

• Map each AI touchpoint that needs opt-in versus implied consent.
• Localize consent text for the states where candidates or users live.
• Store proof with timestamps, channel, and version of the language shown.
• Give a no-friction path for someone who declines without retaliation.
• Reconfirm consent when you materially widen how the model uses data.