For colleges and universities
When a student says "there are images of me online," your campus should know what to do next.
Protect Privacy AI finds where a student's sexual images are being shared, gets them taken down, and keeps watching for re-uploads. Your staff make the referral. We handle the digital harm. The student stays in control.
This is already happening to your students. Most haven't told anyone.
Image-based sexual abuse is sexual images shared, created, or threatened without consent. It includes an ex posting real photos, a hidden camera, a classmate running a yearbook picture through a nudify app, and sextortion where someone threatens to send images to a student's family unless they pay.
College-age students are the most affected group.
Students who are targeted stop coming to class, change schools, or disappear from campus life. For an institution, that is a Title IX obligation, a mental health crisis, and a retention problem at the same time.
A clearer next step
Support the student without becoming a technology investigator.
Receive and support.
Your campus follows its established procedures.
Offer a trusted referral.
The student chooses whether to connect with Protect Privacy.
Address the digital harm.
We help clarify available detection, removal, and monitoring options.
Continue campus care.
Your team remains focused on safety, support, and student wellbeing.
The response gap
Your team can receive the report. Who helps address the images?
Campus professionals should not have to navigate detection tools, platform reporting systems, and takedown escalation alone.
Complement the systems you already have.
Protect Privacy does not replace Title IX, counseling, legal, student-affairs, or campus-safety procedures. It adds a specialized digital-response capability.
Respond while the harm is still unfolding.
A student may need help identifying possible exposure, pursuing removal, preserving important information, or monitoring for continued distribution.
Return control to the student.
The student receives clear information, understands available options, and chooses whether and how to move forward.
What we do
Find. Remove. Monitor.
Find.
We search the open web for a student's sexual images, including cropped, edited, and AI-generated versions. Students never have to upload the abusive content or know every URL.
Remove.
We file removal requests under platform policies and the TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed and sent on the student's behalf so they never contact a site directly. When platforms miss the law's 48-hour window, we escalate to infrastructure providers and the FTC.
Monitor.
Ongoing scans catch re-uploads and new copies, so the student isn't checking the internet every morning.
Three things campus staff should know:
- Takedowns for known links are free, always.
- Students create their own account and control what is submitted, what is reviewed, and when to stop. They can delete their data at any time.
- No one on your staff ever views, downloads, or handles a student's images. Neither does ours without the student's explicit permission.
Partner with us
You know your students. We know how to get the images down. Here's how we work together.
Three ways campuses partner with Protect Privacy AI, separately or together.
Staff training.
Live and recorded sessions for Title IX coordinators, counselors, RAs, and campus safety on recognizing image-based sexual abuse, responding without re-traumatizing, and making the referral.
Policy support.
Through our nonprofit partner, The Digital Identity Foundation, we help institutions update Title IX and student conduct policies to address sexual deepfakes and nonconsensual images, as the Department of Education has asked campuses to do.
Student access.
Institutional licenses so students can access search and monitoring at no cost to them, with usage reporting that protects student identity.
Scope and pricing depend on campus size and what you need. Start with the briefing.
Who's behind this
Built by people who have done this work for decades.
Protect Privacy AI was founded by Dawn Hawkins, who led the National Center on Sexual Exploitation for 14 years and helped pass the TAKE IT DOWN Act. Our client experience team is led by Mariah Rief, a survivor leader who spent four years working alongside federal prosecutors on digital exploitation cases. Our campus program partners with The Digital Identity Foundation, led by survivor advocate Andrea Powell.
“We fought for the laws. Now we're building the tools that make them work.”
Institutional access
Review your campus response before the next report.
Schedule a complimentary 20-minute conversation to identify possible response gaps and explore whether institutional access or a campus pilot may fit your community.
- Review your current referral and response process
- Identify where the digital response may break down
- Explore student access, training, and pilot options
- Clarify the right stakeholders and next step
Common questions
What campus leaders need to know.
Built with survivor-informed, privacy-first design.
Your dignity and control come first.
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