Skip to content
Report a Scam

Take It Down!

The free Take It Down tool can help remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of youth when they were under 18 years old.

You remain anonymous while using the service and you won’t have to show or send your images or videos to anyone. Take It Down will generate a “hash” or digital fingerprint that can be used to identify an exact copy of that image or video.

Your image or video remains on your device and is not uploaded. The hash is added to a secure list maintained by NCMEC that is shared only with participating online platforms who have agreed to use this list to scan their public or unencrypted sites and apps for the hashes of your explicit content.

If an online platform detects an image or video on its public or unencrypted service that matches a hash value, it can take action to limit the spread of the explicit content!
The federal TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed into law in May 2025 and makes it a crime to share non-consensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, with penalties up to three years in prison. The "Take It Down" tool, developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), uses a "digital fingerprint" to allow users to anonymously report images to participating online platforms to have them removed.