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Facebook Needs Users’ Nude Photos to Fight Revenge Porn

November 9, 2017 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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Facebook found an unusual but possibly effective way to fight revenge porn

Facebook came up with a weird solution to fight against revenge porn in Australia, but the tactic might return the expect results. The social media service is encouraging those who feel at risk of becoming victims of the tactic to pre-upload their nude photos on the platform. Although it doesn’t sound like a solution at all, the technique might allow both Facebook and the potential victim to have the upper hand.

Facebook found a weird solution for revenge porn

Nowadays, many people become victims of revenge porn and, unfortunately, there aren’t too many effective solutions. Copyright law is one option, but it can be enforced to take down the photos quite a long period after they have been made public. Therefore, Facebook decided to take action, and developed a special technique against the practice.

Facebook developed the tool for all people who know there are compromising pictures of themselves in the hands of people who might make them public. By using it, they might block these people from sharing the images by sharing them with Facebook themselves.

The anti revenge porn tool will keep the nude images from being re-uploaded

At a first glance, this still sounds outrageous, but Facebook won’t make the photos public. Instead, they will be kept private and, once the tool identifies the same photos shared by someone else, it blocks them from going public. The tool was created with the help of the Australian e-Safety Commissioner, and applies to all platforms owned by the social media giant.

This technique against revenge porn sounds odd, indeed, but it might actually work. Once a person feels at risk of having their private photos shared, the e-Safety Commissioner will most likely encourage the person to share the nude images with themselves on Facebook Messenger.

Then, Facebook will keep track of duplicates of the images, and will prevent others from being uploaded. Also, the platform assured the users that nothing else will happen to these pictures. They will not be stored anywhere, and the tool is completely safe to use.
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