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People Of Whom Intimate Images Have Been Posted Online Can Report Them & Have Them Removed.

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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.

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


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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