Think your intimate images are on Telegram? Here's exactly how to document, report, and escalate them for removal, and what to know about Telegram.

What to do right now

Why Telegram is harder

Step by step

Protect against copies elsewhere

If you own the photo

You have more options than it feels like

How to Get Your Images Removed From Telegram (and Why It's Harder Here)

A platform ignored your removal request? Here's how to escalate: file an FTC complaint and report to the host, registrar, CDN, and DNS behind the site.

Two levers that matter most

File an FTC complaint

Go to the infrastructure behind the site

Ask Google to hide the images from search

How Protect Privacy AI can help

If you're in distress

A Platform Won't Take Your Images Down. Here's How to Escalate.

Your ex posted your private photos online? Here's what to do first: save evidence, get them removed fast, and know your rights. Step by step.

First, this isn't your fault

Save the evidence before you delete or report

Get the images taken down

Report it to law enforcement

Know your legal options

Get support

My Ex Posted My Photos Online. What Do I Do? (2026 Step-by-Step Guide)

Being threatened with intimate images unless you pay? The threat alone is now a federal crime. What to do right now, who to contact, and why not to pay.

What a threat to publish actually means

The threat itself is now a federal crime

How to report it

State laws add another layer

If you're worried it's already posted

Someone is threatening to post my nudes unless I pay. Is that illegal, and what do I do?

Being sextorted? Blocking matters, but do these things first: save evidence, stop paying, report, and file under the TAKE IT DOWN Act.

Quick answer

Save the evidence first

Stop paying, stop sending

Report, then escalate

Then block, and don't check back

If you already paid

Things to Do Before You Block the Scammer (Sextortion Checklist)

A plain-language walkthrough of the federal law signed in May 2025 — what it requires of platforms, what it makes a crime, and what it means for you today.

What the law does

If your images were shared, here's what the law now gives you

What the law now does that we didn't have before

This law exists because survivors made it exist

The TAKE IT DOWN Act makes sharing or threatening to share intimate images a federal crime and forces platforms to remove them in 48 hours. Here's how.

What Is the TAKE IT DOWN Act? A Plain-Language Guide for Survivors

Worried your private photos are online? Here's how to search for your own images with reverse image and face search, plus how to get them removed.

The most complete way: let us search for you

How to check some areas yourself

Face search, and its limits

What Google's tool does and doesn't do

If you find something

You have more options than you think

How Do I Know If My Photos Are Online? A Step-by-Step Guide

Worried an employer will find your leaked or fake nude photos? Here's what's actually findable, what background checks show, and how to lower the risk.

Can an employer really find it?

Do background checks show this?

A fake or AI image still counts

How to make images less findable

Your legal footing

If it comes up with an employer

Can Employers Find My Leaked Photos? What's Actually Findable, and How to Lower the Risk

Yes, AI can make fake nude images from a single clothed photo. Here's how it works, whether it's illegal, and how to get fake pictures removed.

Yes, and it's not your fault

How they do it

Is it illegal?

What to do if a fake image already exists

Can you prevent this?

Can Someone Make Fake Nudes of Me Without My Photos?

You don't have to say it perfectly. A calm, practical guide to telling family or someone you love that you're a victim of image-based sexual abuse.

You don't have to tell everyone, or tell them everything

Why telling someone helps

How to choose the right person, and what to say

If the image is fake or AI-generated

Tell them what you need

If the reaction isn't what you hoped for

How to Tell Your Family or Someone You Love That You're a Victim of Image Abuse

You shared intimate images privately or on a subscription site and they leaked. That's still non-consensual. Here's how to get them removed.

Is this really non-consensual?

Two removal tools, and which fits

Do you own the copyright? A quick check

What to do in the next hour

If the platform ignores you

Does closing my account help?

Someone Leaked My Private Pics. I Only Shared Them With One Person. What Now?

Yes. As of 2025, all 50 states, D.C., and the federal government have laws against sharing someone's intimate images without their consent. This guide covers the steps that work anywhere and your federal protections.

The fastest way to act right now

What federal law protects you everywhere

Does your state cover deepfakes, and can you sue?

Find your state's law

If your state's law is weak

Is Image-Based Sexual Abuse Illegal in My State? A 50-State Guide

StopNCII and NCMEC's Take It Down are powerful, but they don't search the web or file takedowns. Here's what they do, what they can't, and who fills the gap.

What these tools actually do

Why it can feel like they aren't helping

What the TAKE IT DOWN Act changed

What a fuller response looks like

Who does what

Why StopNCII and NCMEC's Take It Down Aren't Finding Your Images (and What Does)

If someone shared or faked intimate images of you, the fastest and most reliable way to get them down has historically been a copyright takedown, called a DMCA notice. Copyright is enforced almost everywhere, and platforms act on it quickly. The catch: a DMCA usually requires your real name, and those notices often become public record. Reports based on non-consensual intimate image laws protect your identity, but platforms have honored them less consistently. That's changing. This post helps you pick the right tool for your situation and use it without exposing yourself more than you have to.


None of this is legal advice. It's a plain-language map of your options so you can decide what fits.

DMCA vs. NCII: the one-line difference

Why a DMCA often works faster

The privacy trade-off

Do you actually own the copyright?

The privacy-protecting route

Which route fits your situation

DMCA vs. NCII: how to remove leaked or fake nudes without exposing your name

Worried your photos are online without consent? Here's how to check safely with reverse image search, plus what to do the moment you find something.

The easiest option: let someone scan for you

Reverse image search, step by step

Face-search tools, with caution

Set up ongoing monitoring

What Google's removal tool actually does

What to do the moment you find something

How to Find Out If Your Photos Are Online (and What to Do Next)

If someone shared explicit images of you without your consent, or is threatening to, four things matter first: don't pay, save the evidence, report the content, and tell one person you trust. Sharing intimate images without consent is a federal crime in the United States. You did nothing wrong.
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Immediate Crisis

 Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) is the creation, sharing, or threatened sharing of sexually explicit images of a person without their consent. It includes images taken consensually and shared without permission, images captured secretly, AI-generated forged or “deepfake” nudes, and sextortion. Sharing explicit images without consent is a federal crime in the United States and is addressed by law in every state.

Understanding IBSA

You want to know where your images are, and you want them gone. These guides cover how to search without forcing yourself to look at every result, which removal route fits your situation, and what to do when a platform ignores you.

Find & Remove Your Images

What laws say about images shared without your consent, including the Take It Down Act. Which conduct is a crime, what you can sue for, how to find a lawyer who takes these cases, and what victim compensation covers.

Your Rights & The Law

What trauma can look like after your images were shared, and what recovery tends to look like over months and years. Finding a therapist who understands this harm, telling the people close to you, and living with the fear that images resurface.

Healing & Support

Tips for anyone reducing risk whether something has happened or not.

Prevention & Digital Safety