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Deepfakes, non-consensual intimate images, fake profiles, doxxing and anything involving a child — the Australian pathways that should be used first, and in the right order.
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This is the hub you open when speed matters more than a tidy paper trail. The pieces cover deepfakes and synthetic intimate images, fake profiles, doxxing and leaked databases, non-consensual intimate images and footage that includes a child.
Report first. Read second. The eSafety guide in the law hub explains the orders that sit behind those forms. Do not file a copyright notice to shortcut an intimate-image case; that mistake is explained in copyright versus reputation.
Image, safety and impersonation
Footage that includes a child is not an ordinary takedown. Australian law, eSafety’s child schemes, ACORN and the platform child-sexual-abuse reports exist so that the file is not treated as a reputation job. Do not circulate it to help.
Image, safety and impersonation
Hash lists, in-product report flows and an eSafety removal notice are different machines. Australians chasing a non-consensual intimate image need all three, plus Google’s image products, and they should not send the file to a journalist.
Image, safety and impersonation
The first two days after a dump are operations, not reputation. Reset the keys, lock the evidence, then work the platforms, Google and the brokers. Do not pay the people who published the file.
Image, safety and impersonation
Impersonation is not one product. Meta, LinkedIn and X each split identity theft, parody, trademark and business scams into different queues. This is the Australian map of those forms, and of the ID step that sinks most reports.
Image, safety and impersonation
A platform label that says “AI generated” is not a takedown. Australian criminal law and the Online Safety Act now treat many synthetic intimate images as image-based abuse. This is the map of notices, offences and the work that still sits with the host.