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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: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday November 10 2017, @05:44PM (7 children)
What we need is a societal change that recognizes two things:
1. Everybody is naked sometimes. Everybody has genitalia of some kind, and there aren't that many varieties really.
2. The vast majority of people have sex at some point in their life.
Until evidence that people are sometimes naked and sometimes have sex becomes no longer scandalous, those trying to embarrass others with that stuff will be able to do so.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2017, @05:54PM
Lead by example. Inspect kids' genitals.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @06:07PM (3 children)
Nah, revenge porn will just move to threatening to show you pictures of your grandparents getting their freak on when that happens.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 10 2017, @06:12PM (2 children)
You never know who will go onto politics or express anti-government sentiment when they get older.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday November 10 2017, @08:17PM (1 child)
Which again, will have no effect if people simply accept that politicians also get it on sometimes. I mean, nobody really wants to picture Angela Merkel doing it, but I'm reasonably certain she has and probably still does.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 10 2017, @08:24PM
She's not bad from the neck down. [typepad.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2017, @06:25PM
The religious people will never come to terms with this. After all, the guy who created the entire universe is interested in nothing like what joe and jane do in the privacy their bedroom.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:31AM
> What we need is a societal change ...
Been there, done that (on a small scale). Lived in a communal space with a dozen (give or take) others c.1980. Clothing optional, without A/C in the summer we were mostly nude. I was very bashful as a kid, but after a few days there with friends, the inhibitions went away and bodies were just bodies. No big deal.
The place lasted for about 10 years, until the building was renovated and all the tenants (including normal businesses on the lower floors) were kicked out. In all that time I only remember a couple of people that didn't adapt quickly.