Would you trust Zuckerberg et al . with your naked picture ? Facebook is embarking on a program to combat revenge erotica . The catch – it requires you to send out in your versed photos before your intrigue ex has the probability to upload them .
What could go incorrect ?
Facebook has beentrialing the technology in Australia(although the program reportedlyremained groundedfor month for reasons unknown ) and is now extending the political platform to its users in the UK , US , and Canada . The intelligence was announced on Tuesday ina postfrom Antigone Davis , the society ’s Global Head of Safety .
So , how does the process work ? Users concerned in this new inspection and repair will first have to contact one of Facebook ’s partners . That is Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and The National web to End Domestic Violence in the US , the Revenge Porn Helpline in the UK , YWCA in Canada , and the Office of the eSafety Commissioner in Australia . Their faculty will utter to the masses at Facebook and users will be sent a liaison that allows them to upload the photo .
reader engage by the social media monster embed a unique digital fingerprint ( called a hasheesh ) onto the photo , which will be kept on a database . This mean if someone ever attempts to upload the effigy to Facebook or one of its sister sites ( Instagram and Messenger ) , it will be at once flag and blocked before anyone gets the hazard to see it .
Now you might be wonder how many people at Facebook would actually get to see those photos ? grant toNewsbeat , Facebook ’s Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis see trope will only be seen by " a very small group of about five peculiarly trail reviewer . " Once it has been hash , the original picture will be delete .
consider the company ’s history ofdata leak , you would be forgive for being skeptical over Facebook ’s ability to keep its user ' photograph strong – or even delete the images it receives . What ’s more , Davis has even admitted the engineering science is n’t foolproof . It is well-fixed enough to manipulate pictures so that they are unlike to the original and a agile edit in Photoshop may be all it strike to wrangle a room around the arrangement .
Facebook has already announced its program to aid set its substance abuser on the path of lovemaking with its launch ofa new date service – its only right it protect its users when thing turn foul . But is this new system really go to aid harness theflood of revenge pornography and “ sextortion”the social media site receives every calendar month or is this just more user data point await to be leaked ?
