- Provide concrete knowledge about picture sharing.
- Provide guidance to parents that contact the service on behalf of their children.
- Provide guidance to children and young people to talk to an adult if they have had their picture shared.
- Provide step-by-step guidance on getting pictures deleted.
- In some cases, help children and young people with contacting the people who have shared the pictures and videos online.
- In some cases, contacting the social media and service providers concerned to encourage them to take down the offensive pictures and videos.
- In some cases, providing contact with police and social authorities.
Naked online - young people sharing pictures
In 2015, the Danish Safer Internet Centre (SIC) (Save the Children Denmark, Centre for Digital Youth Care and The Media Council for Children & Young People) launched a booklet, ‘So you got naked online' (in Danish: ‘Har du været nøgen på nettet?') with information and practical tools for children and young people who have experienced their intimate pictures being shared.
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