---
title: "Remove intimate images shared without · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/intimate-image-takedown
id: TNS-18
level: Required
applies: user-content
region: US
risk: law
updated: 2026-10-27
build: a2a6bdfed830
tokens: 1188
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Remove intimate images shared without consent within 48 hours

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

- ID: TNS-18
- Level: Required
- Chapter: [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md)
- Rule: Publish a removal process for intimate images shared without consent, in plain words and linked from every report form. Remove the item in a valid request, and every known identical copy, within 48 hours.
- Check: A test sends a valid request for a test image that has two stored identical copies. On a fake clock, all three are hidden before 48 hours pass, and the requester gets a case number. A new upload of the same file is refused. Every report form links to the removal notice.
- Risk: A law broken
- Applies when: The project hosts content that users post.
- Region: United States (US). The duty comes from the law there. The rule applies only when the project serves people there, and its Applies when also holds.
- How: The US TAKE IT DOWN Act sets this duty for covered platforms since 19 May 2026, and the FTC enforces it. A covered platform serves the public and mainly hosts content its users make. Email and internet access providers are left out. The law covers photos and videos, including ones altered or made by AI. A valid request is in writing and signed, on paper or electronically, by the person shown or someone acting for them. It identifies the item and where to find it, states in good faith that it was shared without consent, and gives contact details. Open each request as a severity 1 case in [Work the queue in order of harm and deadline](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/reports-and-queues/queue-priority.md), with the deadline set from receipt. Find copies by the file's hash and block new uploads that match it. [Report child sexual abuse material and keep the evidence](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/csam-reports.md) does the same for known abuse material. Give the person a case number, as the FTC advises.

## Examples

**Using these examples:** they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

### JavaScript example

```js
const TAKE_DOWN_HOURS = 48;
const HOUR_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;

export async function openIntimateImageCase(request) {
  const item = await items.findByUrl(request.itemUrl);
  const copies = await items.findBySha256(item.sha256);
  await uploadBlocklist.add(item.sha256);
  return cases.create({
    reason: 'intimate-image', severity: 1, items: [item, ...copies],
    dueAt: new Date(request.receivedAt.getTime() + TAKE_DOWN_HOURS * HOUR_MS),
  });
}
```

### Python example

```python
from datetime import timedelta

TAKE_DOWN_WINDOW = timedelta(hours=48)

def open_intimate_image_case(request):
    item = items.find_by_url(request.item_url)
    copies = items.find_by_sha256(item.sha256)
    upload_blocklist.add(item.sha256)
    return cases.create(
        reason="intimate-image", severity=1, items=[item, *copies],
        due_at=request.received_at + TAKE_DOWN_WINDOW,
    )
```

## Sources

- [TAKE IT DOWN Act, Public Law 119-12, section 3](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ12/html/PLAW-119publ12.htm)
- [FTC, Complying with the Take It Down Act](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/complying-take-it-down-act)

## Related rules

- TNS-4 [Work the queue in order of harm and deadline](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/reports-and-queues/queue-priority.md) in Trust and safety
- TNS-7 [Report child sexual abuse material and keep the evidence](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/csam-reports.md) in Trust and safety

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/intimate-image-takedown">Agent Wranglers trust and safety playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

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