Help action: Get Help With Shared Images
Reduce exposure before the camera starts
Remove identifying objects, notifications, mail, IDs, sensitive screens, and private images from the frame. Protect other people who may appear or be heard. A consent request is respectful, but it cannot technically guarantee that capture will not occur.
Consent applies to recording and sharing
Ask before recording or sharing another person's image or words. Accept no without pressure. If someone pressures you to expose, record, or send something, end the conversation. See Consent and Boundaries.
If content is threatened or shared
Stop contact. Do not pay for a promise of deletion, confront the person, or redistribute the material as proof. Secure affected accounts, preserve only safe necessary information requested by an official path, report where appropriate, and tell a trusted person.
Specialized resources have eligibility limits
NCMEC Take It Down is intended for eligible images taken when the depicted person was under 18 and says not to download or share a missing copy merely to submit it. StopNCII supports eligible adults through participating platforms. Read each service's current terms, geographic reach, and coverage. They are independent external resources, not ChitChatVideo partners.
For threats or coercion, the FBI sextortion page provides US federal guidance. Immediate danger belongs with local emergency services.
Consent is a social rule, not a capture control
Asking before recording respects the other person and may be required by policy or law, but the request itself cannot disable screenshots, a second camera, or outside software. Conversely, the technical ability to capture does not create permission to do so. Keep these two ideas separate: make privacy-conscious choices as if capture is possible, and still ask for consent before recording or sharing. Laws vary by place; this page does not provide legal advice.
Related paths: What Not to Share · Video Chat Etiquette · Safety Center