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Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance
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This new protection system works similar to the anti-child-porn detection systems in use at Facebook, and other social media giants like Google, Twitter, Instagram, and others.
It works on a database of file hashes, a cryptographic signature computed for each file.
Facebook says that once an abuser tries to upload an image marked as "revenge porn" in its database, its system will block the upload process. This will work for images shared on the main Facebook service, but also for images shared privately via Messenger, Facebook's IM app. Potential victims will need to upload nude photos of themselves
The weird thing is that in order to build a database of "revenge porn" file hashes, Facebook will rely on potential victims uploading a copy of the nude photo in advance.
This process involves the victim sending a copy of the nude photo to his own account, via Facebook Messenger. This implies uploading a copy of the nude photo on Facebook Messenger, the very same act the victim is trying to prevent.
The victim can then report the photo to Facebook, which will create a hash of the image that the social network will use to block further uploads of the same photo.
This is possible because in April this year, Facebook modified its image reporting process to take into account images showing "revenge porn" acts.
Facebook says it's not storing a copy of the photo, but only computing the file's hash and adding it to its database of revenge porn imagery.
Victims who fear that former or current partners may upload a nude photo online can pro-actively take this step to block the image from ever being uploaded on Facebook and shared among friends.
We won't be doing this. I don't even want to see hashes of you folks naked.
Facebook asks Australians to send nude photos, for safety
"Worried that an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend might post your intimate photos on the internet? Facebook says it has a solution – as long as you'll hand over the photos first.
The social media giant recently announced its new plan to combat "revenge porn," when individuals post nude photos online without the consent of the subject." http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/11/08/facebook-says-it-needs-your-explicit-photos-to-combat-revenge-porn.html
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 10 2017, @05:42PM (4 children)
There is that. The most valid reason that the military had for banning homosexuals, was that they could be blackmailed. Let the homos make the fact that they are homosexual public knowledge, suddenly, they can't be blackmailed for being homos.
On the other hand, ugly people probably don't want to post their ugly asses for the world to see.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @06:08PM
Ron. Jeremy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 10 2017, @06:09PM (2 children)
I disagree. I do agree that blackmail the most valid reason the military (and other agencies) had for disqualifying gays from a security clearance, but the more obvious reason from the military perspective is that they didn't want buttsex and dyking out all over the place. It's difficult to keep discipline when you're surrounded by naked people you're attracted to.
Funny that, as some armies of antiquity encouraged "brotherly love."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2017, @10:12PM (1 child)
(Slate [slate.com])
I'm not a soldier, but I would imagine that "brotherly love" could actually promote "unit cohesion."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @01:25PM
Up until the first jealous fight because so-and-so fucked so-and-so, and so-and-so is mine!