What to do if…
someone has reposted your photos with your location without your consent

What to do now

1. Get to a safer pause. If the repost shows your current location, home, workplace, school, or a place you are about to visit, move to somewhere more public or be with trusted people. Tell one trusted person what has been posted and where you are.
2. Stop live location sharing. Turn off live location sharing in messaging apps, map apps, device-finding apps, and social apps. Pause posting new photos, stories, check-ins, or location stickers until you have checked your settings.
3. Capture basic evidence, without delaying urgent help. Screenshot the repost so the account name, date or time, location tag, caption, and identifiable landmarks are visible. Copy the post URL and profile URL into a note, or take an extra screenshot if URLs are not visible.
4. Make a short incident log. Write down when you saw it, which platform it was on, the account name, what location was revealed, and whether there were threats, messages, repeated posts, or signs the person knows your movements.
5. Report the post and account in the app. Use the platform’s report option for harassment, sharing personal information, privacy, stalking, or safety. In the free-text box, say that your location was shared without consent and you are concerned for your safety.
6. Reduce location clues you control. Turn off camera location tagging for new photos. Review recent posts for location stickers, check-ins, street signs, school or work badges, distinctive landmarks, regular routines, and visible addresses; remove or hide the biggest risks after saving basic evidence.
7. Lock down accounts that could expose more information. Start with your email and main social accounts. Change passwords, turn on two-step verification, check logged-in sessions, sign out of devices you do not recognise, and tighten who can tag, mention, message, or share your posts.
8. Reduce real-world exposure for now. If your home, workplace, school, or usual route is identifiable, consider staying with someone else, changing the next journey, asking someone to accompany you, and telling someone responsible at your workplace, school, college, building, or household not to confirm details about you.
9. Use UK police routes if you feel targeted or unsafe. Call 999 if there is immediate danger, someone is nearby, a threat is happening now, or you are afraid to go home. Call 101, or use your local police force’s online reporting route if available, if it is not an emergency but you want advice or the incident logged. If you cannot safely speak on a mobile 999 call, press 55 when prompted.
10. If you are under 18, involve a safe adult now. Tell a parent, guardian, teacher, school safeguarding lead, college staff member, or another trusted adult so you are not handling location exposure alone.