Facebook volition presently inquire its users to upload naked photos of themselves to the social media website inwards firm to halt revenge porn.
On Tuesday, the social network announced that they are testing their novel first to cause practice “revenge porn,” it volition halt its users from “proactively” uploading scandalous pictures of their one-time sexual partner online without his or her consent.
The novel characteristic volition scan through the images together with and then ensure that these kinds of images are non uploaded to the site. This technique is an endeavor to halt so-called revenge porn.
To halt that, the site volition inquire its users to upload whatsoever images they mean value mightiness survive able to used to impairment them. The images volition together with then survive assigned a digital fingerprint thence that whatsoever attempts to upload them tin survive stopped.
According to Facebook, for uploading pictures in that place volition survive a “secure, one-time upload link,” which volition survive reviewed yesteryear a “handful of peculiarly trained members of our Community Operations Safety Team."
Facebook's Global Head of Safety, Antigone Davis said inwards a post " people who worry that mortal mightiness desire to impairment them yesteryear sharing an intimate paradigm tin proactively upload it thence nosotros tin block anyone else from sharing it on Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger:
- Anyone who fears an intimate paradigm of them may survive publicly tin contact i of our partners to submit a form.
- After submitting the form, the victim receives an e-mail containing a secure, one-time upload link.
- The victim tin purpose the link to upload images they fearfulness volition survive shared.
- One of a handful of specifically trained members of our Community Operations Safety Team volition review the written report together with practice a unique fingerprint, or hash, that allows us to position time to come uploads of the images without keeping copies of them on our servers.
- Once nosotros practice these hashes, nosotros notify the victim via e-mail together with delete the images from our servers – no subsequently than vii days.
- We shop the hashes thence whatsoever fourth dimension mortal tries to upload an paradigm alongside the same fingerprint, nosotros tin block it from appearing on Facebook, Instagram or Messenger."
Facebook has started testing stage for users inwards the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, together with Australia.
