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How to Remove Intimate Images Shared Without Consent

If someone has shared intimate images of you without your consent — or is threatening to — there are free tools built specifically for this, and you do not have to send anyone your photos to use them.

You are not required to negotiate with whoever is threatening you. If you are being blackmailed, do not pay; sextortion demands almost always escalate after payment.

If you are 18 or over: StopNCII.org

  1. Go to StopNCII.org.
  2. Select the images or videos on your own device.
  3. Your device creates a hash — a digital fingerprint. Only the hash is uploaded; the image never leaves your device.
  4. Participating platforms (including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Snapchat, Bumble and others) match that hash and block or remove the content.
  5. You get a case number to track it.

If you were under 18 in the images: Take It Down

Use takeitdown.ncmec.org, run by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It works the same hash-based way and is free. It also applies if you are an adult now but were a minor in the content.

Also do these

  1. Report on each platform directly — every major platform has a dedicated non-consensual intimate imagery report form, which is faster than a generic report.
  2. Ask Google to de-index it — Google removes non-consensual explicit imagery from search results on request, and will also filter similar future results.
  3. Keep evidence before deleting anything — screenshots, URLs, usernames, dates. You may need them for police or a lawyer.
  4. Report it as a crime — sharing non-consensual intimate images is illegal in all US states and in many other countries.

Support

The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative runs a free crisis helpline and legal-referral service for image-based abuse. In the UK, the Revenge Porn Helpline offers the same and will do removals on your behalf.

This is one of the few areas of online removal where the tools genuinely work well — the hash-matching systems are effective, and platforms treat these reports as a priority.