Facebook anti-revenge porn program asks users for their nude photos

Source: The Hill | November 7, 2017 | Harper Neidig

Facebook is reportedly testing out a pilot program to counter revenge porn that involves users sending the company nude photos of themselves that may be in others’ possession.

The program, which is currently only being deployed in Australia, creates a digital thumbprint of the images, known as “hashing,” that users don’t want spread without their consent on Facebook.

Once a photo is “hashed,” Facebook acts to prevent any attempt to re-upload it from another source, as reported Tuesday by The Guardian.

“We see many scenarios where maybe photos or videos were taken consensually at one point, but there was not any sort of consent to send the images or videos more broadly,” a Facebook official said.

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