It is best in this situation to contact specialists who work at the intersection of law and information protection in the web. In any case, if a person becomes a victim of blackmail, you can not pay fraudsters for "removing photos and videos from the Internet." As a rule, this does not stop them, they continue to post videos on new resources and again demand money.
The appearance of negative videos on the web often causes more harm to a person or organization than text information. Videos are posted on several web sites, from where they spread on blogs or websites. Therefore, the first priority to minimize reputational damage is to remove unwanted content from social networks and hosting.
It is often a waste of time to ask the "author" of the video to be removed. You need to negotiate directly with sites, video hosting and social networks (more on how to delete data from FaceBook, VK, Inst), insisting on breaking the rules when posting information. This will preserve the anonymity of customers.
It is worth mentioning that unwanted videos are impeccably made, do not violate the rules of sites and the letter of the law. In this situation, it is much more difficult to remove them. Protesting a posted video can attract excessive attention.
The list of people who use video to damage reputation is large. It can be as business competitors and rivals on the personal front, and former spouses or partners. Circumcision and bonding of the video can significantly change the accents, and even harmless material to turn into a negative.
For illegal posting of video on the Web from the age of 14 is criminally liable. Depending on the severity of the act (blackmail, surveillance, etc.) the attacker faces a fine, arrest, correctional work, suspended sentence. But by and large, people try to hush up the spread of defamatory videos and photos from the Internet on their own, without turning to law enforcement.
How do I remove videos from the internet forever? There are three ways:
- Go to the police. If the compromising material was posted illegally, the video will be removed from the sites in court. This does not mean that the customer with the original "movie" will be found. The chance that law enforcement will find the customer and the original video is unlikely.
- Ask for the removal of those who laid it out. The method is effective, but rarely anyone will bow to the offender.
- Hire a specialist from a reputational agency to remove negativity from the Internet. The specialization of programmers – to find and deactivate videos on large and small sites, and detectives – to detect and destroy the original shooting.
It is recommended to delete videos from the Internet in the following cases.
- Permission was not given for filming or publication.
- It damages the image.
- It tarnishes a personal or professional reputation.
- It is cyberbullying.
To begin with, you should try to remove the video with you from the Internet yourself (from your own profiles: you can remove the video from Classmates, FB, VK). To do this, you need to block someone else's video or, if the owner goes into denial, remove defamatory content, blocking the channel completely. It is recommended that you file a complaint with the resource administration.
To do this, you need to attract several users who have profiles on the Yu-tube. The more complaints, the faster the resource administrator reacts.
- You can complain about the video by clicking under the video on the bottom right three points of "hidden possibilities."
- From the options available to choose "Report."
- Choosing the right type of complaint, send it to the admin.
Most often choose "Spam and misleading" or "Violation of my rights." The copyright and privacy of the content in the given should be emphasized. This is essential to protect business reputation as well as business information security.
The presence of several unwanted videos is a reason to complain about the channel as a whole. To do this, go to the Youtube report. Complaining is permissible both on videos and on individual fragments of videos, and even on insults in the comments.
To file a complaint, it is necessary in the "Reasons…" block. choose "Report the Channel" by specifying a suitable theme from the proposed one. The notification is sent in a special form, among which you can choose to protect individuals:
- I'm shown in the video without consent;
- insult/harass;
- my image is used (privacy is violated).
It is important to remember that filing a false complaint leads to blocking the account of the complainant!
The Channel Yu-Tube allows not only anonymously to post videos, but also anonymously send complaints. The channel's administration removes all videos that violate community policy. Information on how to delete a video posted on someone else's Yu-Tube channel is detailed in Help.
If a hard-hitting video is posted on Telegram or a TV channel, you need to find Abuz service contacts. You can do this by looking for "Abuse" or "DMCA." The telegram channel that disseminates defamatory information has the same rule as the One-Tube. Several users' complaint about the video posted speeds up the admin response.
On Facebook, either the account owner or the administration of the social network can remove defamatory content.
Google responds quite harshly to privacy violations. Removal is initiated through "sending legal requests" and then selecting the proposed answers from the list. Any image of a person without clothes or committing intimate acts, not giving permission to shoot and publish in the public domain is removed unconditionally. However, this will not completely remove yourself from the Internet.
It is difficult to remove videos from a site if it is located outside Russian jurisdiction. If the video is posted on Pornhab, a popular resource, it is enough to fill out a complaint form. The administration of the resource reacts in cases of revenge, blackmail, intimidation and other illegal actions, which should be explicitly pointed out. Before deleting, you will have to go through a system of audio and visual identification, allowing you to continue to block the placement of content with a specific person.
All large media resources strive for maximum legality, so try to quickly solve the problems. Learn more about how to delete your data from the internet on other resources.