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The internet is a MASSIVE place. We all understand this. Equally, we understand that when anxiety and worry take over, we panic about where our intimate images may have been shared without our consent.
Setting up a Google Alert is not a perfect science but can definitely provide some reassurance and peace of mind. It works by flagging Google search results to you via email when a specific name or phrase is found.
You can enter as many alerts as you like. This could include names, nicknames, and phrases, basically anything you think could be attached or associated with your content if your images or videos were posted. If you have a common name, you might need to add some detail, such as your home town, so you don’t receive 100+ results a day for someone else.
Jane Smith
Jane Smith, Huddersfield
Jane Smith, Huddersfield, 31
Jane Smith, Leaked nudes
4. Change the options of what you see and when you’re alerted.
Seeing daily alerts might cause you to feel more stressed by the situation. Click on the settings cog icon (found by the right of ‘My Alerts’. You can then decide how often you can receive notifications for search results. By selecting the ‘Digest’ option, any search results will be combined into one email which you can receive daily or weekly.
5. If you do find a result, and there is an intimate image or video shared without your consent, we’re here to help you.
Firstly, don’t panic. Easier said than done, but we can help and you’re not alone with dealing with this. Here’s what to do:
We are able to help you to report and remove the content. Whilst we cannot guarantee it will be removed, we do hold a very good takedown success rate and we are very persistent and determined.
We will ask you to copy and paste the URL and send us the links to the content: if there are other images or videos on the page, we may have to ask you to confirm which images are of you.
Privacy. A term that’s been thrown around and become a bit of a media buzzword; the meaning has been altered and potentially even lost. You can make your own decisions over many privacy options: who can see what you’re doing, who you’re with and even where you are. The intention here is not to scare but to emphasise the importance of what you can do to manage your privacy online. Keeping your private stuff private is vital and it’s often common advice in a situation where your privacy has been or might be, compromised.
For most of the changes to privacy settings you’ll need to do this on the app or platform itself, but for ease and clarity here are all the links to where you can do this as quickly as possible.
Google offers multiple options for changing your privacy settings and have a privacy check-up option to make sure it’s all up to date and secure.
To change your privacy setting on YouTube, click here. You’re able to change the visibility of your videos so you can decide who can view, share and much more.
On the Facebook ‘Basic Privacy Settings & Tools’ page, you are able to review your privacy settings for sharing, connecting and tagging on Facebook.
Instagram’s Help Centre allows you to adjust your privacy settings, let you know how you can make your profile private and lots more features to improve your privacy.
Click here to find out how you can manage your privacy settings on Twitter, report abuse and access help for hacked or compromised accounts.
Snapchat Support allows you to review all your privacy settings and also inform you on how to report abuse, block and learn how the app works with privacy in mind.
To review, edit and update your privacy settings and account information on LinkedIn.
We see numerous cases of sextortion crimes happening over Skype and other video chat platforms, through Skype you can manage your privacy settings here.
Any WhatsApp user to see your read receipts, last seen, about and profile photo. Find out more here.
Visit your Privacy and Safety settings to update your privacy controls for your comments, direct messages, and Duets.
You are able to find out how to protect your account, see recent logins, enable two-factor authentication and update your search privacy
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Reverse image searching allows you to find other websites that contain the image you’re looking for. If someone has shared or threatened to share, your intimate images without consent and you want to find where, or if, it has been posted, this could be a useful tool.
Searching for your content online can be very distressing so proceed with caution if you choose to do this and maybe limit the time you spend searching. Alternatively, ask a trusted friend to do this for you.
Most search engines have a reverse image search function, it’s usually found as an image icon alongside the image search bar. If you are wanting to perform a tougher search, it’s best to use more than one engine to double-check as sometimes the images cannot be found on one engine but can be on another.
You can find links below to some of the most popular search engines and their reverse image tool.
Please note: we do not endorse or recommend the following platforms, we are simply providing available tools for public use.
Select the camera icon to search by image. Here you can upload the image file or paste in the image address URL.
Available on Google Play and the Apple App Store, useful if you are using your mobile device for image searching.
Search for similar images by uploading an image file or the image address.
Select the camera and magnifier glass icon, upload the image file or image address.
Upload the image file or image address into the search bar.
If you do find a result and there is an intimate image or video shared without your consent, we’re here to help you.
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Essentially, this is the address of a website. If you have had your intimate content shared online and you need assistance with the removal of this, then we will need to ask for you a direct URL link to where this content is.
Don’t worry if you don’t know how to find this, we’ve explained it below for websites, social media platforms and how to find an image address.
Firstly, find the white banner at the top of your screen, you may have to scroll to the top of the screen if you are using a mobile device. Within that banner is the URL; it usually starts with http.www.
Select it so the whole item is highlighted (it usually highlights in blue)
If you are using a computer (with a keyboard and mouse), right-click and select ‘copy’ (you can also press ‘ctrl + C’ on your keyboard).
If you are using a mobile device, press and hold the URL as it is highlighted. A dropdown menu should appear, and press ‘copy’.
This item has then been copied into your clipboard. You can then ‘paste’ this into a word document or e-mail.
If you are using a computer with a mouse, right-click and select “paste’ (you can also press ‘ctrl + V’).
This should then paste the URL. You can check this by clicking the link to see if it directs you to the page you were on.
You might need to do this to find a direct URL link to the image itself, not just the website page where the image can be seen. For example, if your image is on a gallery with other images where you do not appear, we will need to know which image is of you and you wish to be reported.
This is easier to do from a laptop or a computer.
Open the page that your image has been shared to.
Right-click on the image that belongs to you.
You’ll see a list of options, select ‘copy image address.
This will then be copied into your clipboard. You can then either paste the link address into an email or you can put it into a word document.
You may need to undertake this additional step if your content has been removed from the website in question but when you search your name online; the content still appears within the search results. This is because the search engine may still show the content when it is outdated and needs to be informed of the content so the server cache can be cleared.
1. This has to be done via the individual search engine. You can find the forms for the following search engines here:
Google – Remove Outdated Content
Bing – Report Broken Links or Outdated Cache Pages
2. Enter the URL (the link address) of the page you would like to be removed
3. Select request removal
You may see the message “This content is no longer live on the website” which means the item has been successfully removed from the original website. You can then request the removal.
You may otherwise see the message “We think the image or web page you’re trying to remove hasn’t been removed by the site owner”, in which case follow the on-screen steps to provide Google with further information. Additionally, contact us and we will see if the web page is still active and re-report the content.
We understand that this is very distressing, especially if the name and/or details reflect the content containing your sensitive images, but doesn’t link to the content. Sometimes, when the image is removed, the website replaces it with something completely different and so the link can’t be removed because the tool doesn’t recognise that the content has been removed.
Yes. You can check the status of your request on the request form.
It is important to obtain screenshots of where the intimate content has been shared without your consent question in case you decide to pursue legal action in the future and report what has happened to the police.
The way you can take a screenshot differs between the device and the operating system. Please find how to do this across a range of different devices and systems.
Press: ‘PrintScreen’ on your keyboard. It might be abbreviated to ‘PrntScrn’.
If you want to take a screenshot of a certain area, such as the content in question press: windows key + the shift key (the upward arrow) + S. You should then be able to grab a certain area using your mouse.
You will not see the screenshot straight away but it will be copied into your clipboard. To see the item(s), open Microsoft Word or Paint and press Ctrl + V.
If you want the whole image to be saved in your Pictures folder, you can press Windows Key + PrntScrn.
If you have a device such as a Samsung, or HTC, your phone runs Android software, and you can perform these actions to obtain a screenshot from your phone.
Press and hold down the power and volume-down buttons at the same time for a couple of seconds. Hold down the power key until a screen appears and tap Take screenshot.
This file will now be saved in your picture folder under Screenshots.
Press and hold the power button and the home button at the same time.
If your device does not have a home button (iPhone X or later), Press and hold the volume up button and the right side button at the same time.
To get a full screenshot, press command + Shift + 3
To get a partial screenshot, command + Shift + 4
It turns the cursor into a crosshair, which you can drag to select a portion of your screen to capture. Release the mouse button or trackpad to take the shot.
And finally, command + Shift + 4, then space bar, then click on a window.
This will turn the cross-hair into a camera icon, which you can then use to take a screenshot of a specific window.
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