Getting non-consensual or stolen content removed
If an intimate image or video of you is online without your consent, or your content has been stolen and re-uploaded, you have real options — and this is not your fault. This page walks through them fastest-first. You do not have to do all of them, and you can get free, confidential help at any step.
1. Stop it spreading — hash-matching (do this first)
The single most effective step, and the least known: free tools create a digital fingerprint (a “hash”) of your image on your own device — you never upload the image itself — and use it to detect and block matching uploads across participating platforms, including many adult sites and social networks. It can work even before you find every copy.
StopNCII.org
Global · Adults 18+
Creates a digital fingerprint of your image on your own device — you never upload the image itself — and blocks matching uploads across partner platforms including Pornhub, OnlyFans, XVideos, Reddit, Meta, TikTok and Snap. Run by the UK's Revenge Porn Helpline.
Take It Down (NCMEC)
Global · For images taken when under 18
Like StopNCII, but for explicit images of someone who was under 18 when the image was taken (it works even if you are now an adult). Device-side hashing — the image never leaves your device. Partners include Pornhub, OnlyFans, Meta, TikTok and Snap.
If the image is fake or AI-generated (deepfake)
A fabricated nude, a face-swap, or a “nudify”-app image is still image-based sexual abuse, and it is removable — you do not have to prove it’s fake. The hash tools above accept synthetic images, search engines remove fabricated explicit content, and new laws specifically cover AI-generated intimate images. These routes are built for exactly this:
StopNCII — synthetic & deepfake images
Global · Adults 18+
StopNCII explicitly covers deepfakes and synthetic nude/semi-nude images of you — you hash them the same way, and the image never leaves your device.
Google — remove fake or AI explicit images
Global · Fabricated content
Google removes deepfakes and fake pornography that falsely depict you nude or in a sexual situation from Search results. You do not have to prove the image is fake.
My Image My Choice
Global · Deepfake abuse
A campaign and resource hub focused specifically on deepfake sexual abuse, with a curated directory of support.
US law: TAKE IT DOWN Act (2025)
US · Your legal leverage
Federal law (2025) that covers AI deepfakes: covered platforms must remove reported non-consensual intimate images, and identical copies, within 48 hours of a valid request. Enforced by the FTC.
UK law: creating a deepfake intimate image
UK · Your legal leverage
Since 6 February 2026 it is an offence in the UK to intentionally create — or request the creation of — a fake ('purported') intimate image of an adult without consent. Sharing has been an offence since 2024.
2. Report it to the site
Every major site has a route to report non-consensual or unauthorized content — usually a “content removal”, “report”, or “DMCA” page. Reporting through the site’s own form is often the fastest removal. Below are the routes we could verify; each site’s own page has the current one.
Tip: report from the platform and use a hash tool above — the hash tool keeps it from being re-uploaded after the platform takes down the copy you found.
3. Copyright takedown (DMCA)
If you took the photo or recorded the video (including a selfie), you own its copyright — and you can demand any site, its host, and search engines remove it under the DMCA (US law that essentially every major platform honours worldwide). If someone else filmed it, copyright may not be yours, but the hash tools, the site’s non-consensual-content policy, and the police routes below still apply.
A valid DMCA notice contains, in your own words:
- Identification of your work (“an intimate photo/video I created of myself”).
- The exact URL(s) of the infringing copy.
- Your contact details (you can ask an agent or lawyer to file so your address isn’t exposed).
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by you, the copyright owner.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are the owner or authorized to act for them.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Send it to three places for the strongest effect: the site’s DMCA agent (column above, or the US Copyright Office agent directory), the site’s hosting provider (shown as the hosting network on each site page), and Google/Bing to remove it from search results.
Copy or download the template, fill in the [bracketed] parts, and send it:
DMCA COPYRIGHT TAKEDOWN NOTICE To: [the site's designated DMCA agent / copyright email] Date: [today's date] To whom it may concern, I am submitting this notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)). Please remove the material identified below. 1. THE COPYRIGHTED WORK [Describe the work you own — for example: "An intimate photograph/video that I personally created of myself, to which I hold the copyright."] 2. THE INFRINGING MATERIAL AND ITS LOCATION The material is being used without my authorization at the following URL(s): [Paste the exact URL(s) of every page where the content appears.] 3. MY CONTACT INFORMATION Name: [your full legal name — or the name of an agent/attorney acting for you] Email: [your email address] Address: [your mailing address] Phone: [your phone number] 4. GOOD-FAITH STATEMENT I have a good-faith belief that the use of the material described above is not authorized by me (the copyright owner), my agent, or the law. 5. STATEMENT UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notice is accurate and that I am the owner of the copyright, or am authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf, for the exclusive right that is being infringed. 6. SIGNATURE [Type your full legal name here as your electronic signature.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for you (delete before sending): • Send this to THREE places for the strongest effect: the site's DMCA agent, the site's hosting provider, and Google/Bing (to remove it from search). • If you did not create the image yourself, copyright/DMCA may not apply — but you can still use StopNCII/Take It Down, the site's non-consensual-content policy, and the police. See adultwebcensus.com/remove-my-content. • You may prefer to have a lawyer or a victim-support helpline file this so your home address is not exposed to the infringer.
4. Report to the police
Sharing intimate images without consent is a crime in most of the US, the UK, Australia, the EU and many other places. Before anything is taken down, preserve evidence: save the URLs, take dated screenshots of the content and the uploader’s profile, and note when you found it. Don’t delete your own accounts or messages that establish context. Then report to your local police and the relevant national portal below.
FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center)
US · US victims
Report sextortion and cyber-enabled exploitation to the FBI. If the victim is a child, use the CyberTipline instead; for immediate danger call 911.
UK Police
UK · UK victims
Report the crime to the police. Sharing intimate images without consent is an offence under the Online Safety Act 2023 and the Sexual Offences Act.
Phone: 101 non-emergency · 999 emergency
5. Remove it from search engines
Even after the page is gone, cached search results can linger. These tools remove intimate or fake explicit images of you from search:
Google — remove intimate images from Search
Global · Real or AI-generated
Removes real intimate images and fabricated/deepfake explicit content of you from Google Search results (it does not delete the content from the host site).
Microsoft / Bing — Report a Concern
Global · Real or AI-generated
Request removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated, from Bing results and Microsoft services.
Free, confidential help
You don’t have to do this alone. These services help victims directly, often including doing the reporting for you:
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI)
US · Adults 18+
Free, confidential 24/7 image-abuse helpline: emotional support, practical information and referrals — for non-consensual imagery, sextortion and deepfakes.
Phone: 1-844-878-2274
Revenge Porn Helpline
UK · Adults 18+
UK helpline for intimate-image abuse — including threats to share, sextortion, voyeurism and upskirting. Mon–Fri; email help@revengepornhelpline.org.uk.
Phone: 0345 6000 459
eSafety Commissioner
Australia · Anyone in Australia
A government regulator that can order the site, its host, or the person who posted to remove content within 24 hours, and can pursue penalties against perpetrators.
Find help in your country
Global · Outside the US/UK/AU
A directory of intimate-image-abuse support organisations across 70+ countries, curated by the Revenge Porn Helpline.
Help in your country
Support and reporting organisations for image-based abuse beyond the US, UK and Australia. For anywhere not listed, the international directory covers 70+ countries.
Canada — NeedHelpNow.ca
Canada · Under 18
Removal help for youth under 18 whose intimate images were shared. Canadian adults: use StopNCII and the police.
Phone: 1-800-668-6868 (Kids Help Phone)
Ireland — Hotline.ie
Ireland
National centre to report illegal content, including intimate images or videos shared without consent. Anonymous web report.
New Zealand — Netsafe
New Zealand
New Zealand's approved online-harm agency; helps remove image-based abuse, including deepfakes. Free and confidential.
Phone: 0508 638 723 (or text 'Netsafe' to 4282)
Germany — HateAid
Germany
Supports victims of digital violence, including image-based sexual abuse and deepfakes; free counselling.
France — e-Enfance / 3018
France · Youth-focused
France's digital-violence helpline and recognised lead on deepfake/deepnude removal.
Phone: 3018 (free, 7 days 9:00–23:00)
Netherlands — Offlimits (Helpwanted)
Netherlands
Free, anonymous chat, email and phone for online sexual harm including sextortion and unwanted intimate images.
Phone: 020-261 5275
Spain — AEPD Canal Prioritario
Spain
Official fast-track channel to request urgent removal of non-consensually published sexual images; INCIBE 017 for support.
Phone: 017 (INCIBE helpline)
Italy — Garante (revenge porn)
Italy
Pre-emptive reporting: submit images/hashes so platforms can block them if you fear an intimate image will be shared.
India — National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal
India
Official portal with a Women/Children crime category for reporting non-consensual intimate content; anonymous option.
Phone: 1930
South Africa — Film and Publication Board
South Africa
Statutory body that issues takedown notices for non-consensual intimate images and deepfakes.
Phone: 012 003 1400
Brazil — SaferNet
Brazil
Free, confidential support (chat and email) for sextortion and non-consensual intimate images.
Japan — Safe-Line
Japan
Free service that requests deletion of revenge-porn and intimate images from domestic and overseas sites.
This is general information, not legal advice. Resources verified as of 2026-08-20; laws and contacts change — the linked organisations have the current details. Adult Web Census hosts no such content and is not involved in the removal process.