The process can be done on hotline.ie
People who've had intimate images or videos of themselves posted outline now have a new way to report them and have them removed.
The process can be done on hotline.ie and is one aspect of a new Department of Justice awareness campaign aimed at highlighting the issue.
Hotline, the national centre for combatting illegal content online, is now "broadening its scope to provide a service for reporting intimate images shared without consent" https://t.co/de38NXRsh9
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) September 2, 2021
1 in 10 adults between 18 and 37 claim to have had an intimate image of them shared online with consent, according to department research.
Junior Justice Minister, Hildegarde Naughton, explains how the new reporting process will work:
Minister Naughton, says sharing or threatening to share an intimate image is a form of abuse
Victims will get help to remove online sexual images under new scheme https://t.co/WeAsVKhfBw
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) September 2, 2021
Chief executive of Goss Media, Ali Ryan, had an intimate video of her filmed without her consent in 2015.
She says she faced threats of it being shared widely since then:
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