Learn to protect your rights
Know what is happening, and what you can do.
If your face or voice has turned up somewhere you did not put it, you are not powerless, and you are not alone. Here is what is going on, what the law says, and the steps you can take, in plain language, drawn from the people who write and enforce these laws.
The part most people miss
The right law for the harm you face
When your likeness is misused, the first question is which kind of harm it is, because each one has its own law and its own way to get content removed. Use the wrong tool and nothing happens.
For content you own that was copied. If someone reposts a photo you took or a video you made, the DMCA's notice-and-takedown process lets you demand its removal. It is about copyright, what you created and own, not about your face itself.
For intimate images shared without consent, including AI-generated fakes. This 2025 federal law makes publishing them a crime, and requires platforms to remove the content within 48 hours of your request.
For your identity used to sell or to claim. State laws protect your name, face, and voice from being used in ads, fake endorsements, or impersonation without your permission.
Picking the right one is half of getting content down. It is also exactly what we do for you, we read the harm, choose the right law, and prepare the notice. You sign once.
Plain language
The words, without the jargon
An image, video, or voice clip generated by AI to look or sound like a real person, made without their involvement and without their consent.
Sexual or intimate content of a person shared without their consent. It covers both real images and AI-generated fakes. Sometimes called “revenge porn,” though it is often made by strangers, not ex-partners.
The formal request that tells a platform to remove specific content. A platform that ignores a valid notice can lose its own legal protection, that is the leverage behind every takedown.
The law on your side
The TAKE IT DOWN Act
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is a federal law, signed in May 2025. It passed with rare near-unanimous, bipartisan support. It makes knowingly publishing non-consensual intimate imagery, real or AI-generated, a federal crime, and it requires online platforms to give victims a way to request removal and to act on a valid request within 48 hours.
It was driven by the case of a Texas student whose classmate used AI to make a fake nude image of her, and the platform took nearly a year to take it down. The Act exists so that removal never takes a year again.
As of May 19, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission is enforcing it. Covered platforms are now legally required to have a removal process and to act within 48 hours, and the first criminal charges under the Act have already been filed.
One honest note: the TAKE IT DOWN Act is specifically about intimate imagery. For other harms, a stolen photo, an impersonation, the DMCA and right-of-publicity routes above are what apply.
From the source
In the news
We do not ask you to take our word for any of this. Here is the law, the agencies enforcing it, and the journalism covering it, read it yourself.
Our boundaries
Where we draw the line
A real question we get: how do we know if someone is scanning their own face, or someone else's?
We cannot. No face-search service can. The technology fundamentally cannot tell who is at the keyboard. So we draw the line where the law does.
Every match we find is already indexed on the open internet by search engines anyone can use. We aggregate what already exists, we do not create new exposure.
Discovery is technically un-gateable. Filing a §512 takedown notice is legally gated, the law requires you to swear under penalty of perjury that you are the person, or legally authorized to act for them. Lying is a federal crime. The legal system gates what the technology cannot.
We don’t gate the scan behind a checkbox, no statute requires it, anyone could click yes, and it pushed friction onto victims to deter misuse it couldn’t actually stop. Authorization is required at the points where federal law actually applies: when you file a DMCA notice (under penalty of perjury, §512(c)(3)(A)(v)), when you register under the TAKE IT DOWN Act for NCII, and when you enroll your voice for biometric matching. The legal layer is where misuse meets real consequence.
How we take care of you
What happens when you scan.
When you upload a photo, here is what we do for you, step by step. No surprises and no fine print.
A free, private scan of public sources, with the matches we find shown to you on one screen. It is in beta, so it will not catch everything, and we only show you real matches.
We write the §512 DMCA notice in legally correct language and find the right inbox or web form for each platform. You sign once and stay the filer-of-record, we are the legal scaffolding behind you.
Optional monitoring re-checks the web for your name and face on a schedule, and if something new surfaces you get an alert. Nothing is acted on without your approval.
Every borderline match is flagged for your review. Nothing is filed in your name without your say-so. We never use your face, or anyone's face, in our marketing.
We do not sell data. We do not run ads. Your face fingerprint stays on your device unless you choose monitoring. Your scan results are visible only to you.
Scans are free and takedowns are free. If you would rather not file yourself, a one-time $39 has us run the whole case for you (money back if we can't get anything removed), and $10 a month keeps watching and handles anything new. The protective action is never paywalled.
What you can do
You do not have to do this alone.
You have the right to file every one of these takedowns yourself, the law gives it to you. What is hard is knowing which law applies, writing the notice so a platform cannot ignore it, finding where to send it, and following up until the content is gone.
That is the part we do. We read the harm, choose the right law, and prepare the notice in your name, you sign once. It is free.
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