As a teenager, I was a victim of online ‘revenge porn’. Here’s how Britain should protect people like me | Isabel Brooks

Reports of non-consensual intimate image ( NCII ) abuse in the UK have increased tenfold over the past few years .

But the true scale of the problem is probably larger, as many victims do not come forward.

The Online Safety Act 2023 has made it easier to punish individuals without the difficult bar of having to prove “intent to cause distress”.

The scale of online content and potentially harmful images is enormous.

It is snowballing out of control: in 2023 there were 36.2 m reports made to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children cyber helpline.

Google , for example, refuses to partner with StopNCII for reasons that are not entirely clear.