What is NCII?

NCII covers a range of material: images originally taken with consent but later shared without it, images obtained without consent in the first place, and images or video that were partly or fully generated using editing or AI tools to depict a real person without their consent. What unifies the category is the absence of consent to distribution, not the method by which the image was produced.

Handling comes before workflow speed in these matters. Material should be ingested and held only with proper authorization, typically through counsel or another authorized representative, with that authorization recorded in the custody log before broader collection begins. Access should be role-based and logged, raw material kept separate from working summaries, and where a rapid platform-removal process is available, the preservation record should exist before a removal request causes the source to disappear. The affected person should never have to become the long-term custodian of the material or repeatedly resupply it to different reviewers.

Where suspected NCII involves synthetic media, Finium's workflow records provenance signals and any detector output as a signal for review, not as a verdict on whether an image is real or fabricated; that assessment belongs to qualified reviewers and counsel working from the full record.