Send nudes: Facebook on the front line to fight Revenge Porn

Facebook, despite the privacy flaws, he had already shown he wanted to lash out against revenge porn, creating a system that would allow users to post your own intimate photos on the platform, so that they are hashed to make sure that, in case a user tries to upload to the platform, they will be blocked immediately, without therefore having the possibility of being made available online.

Revenge Porn is a relatively new expression but one that you need to know well. It means the action of sharing photos, videos or any other type of intimate material online as revenge for breaking up with one's partner or partner. An action, therefore, shameful and that must be fought to defend the dignity of people who see such images or videos shared online without their consent.

The concept was recently reiterated in a blog post on Facebook. Antigone David, head of platform security, in fact stated that the company is updating its pilot program, allowing users to upload the image before it is seen by others. The system had already been tested in Australia in 2017 and now the test will also be expanded to the United States, Canada and Great Britain.

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Facebook has also decided to partner with security organizations in these countries, to make it even easier to prevent cases of revenge porn by reporting such images in advance. These include the Cyber ​​Civil Rights Initiative and The National Network to End Domestic Violence in the United States, YWCA Canada, the UK Revenge Porn Helpline and the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner.

 

Users who are concerned that some of their intimate photos may be shared on the Facebook, Instagram or Messenger platform can contact local organizations of reference, send a form, and receive a one-time-use link to upload the images. in question. They will then be verified by a limited number of properly trained people members of the Facebook Community Operations Safety Team, which will create a unique hash for the image, which will have the role of acting as fingerprint for the image. This will allow Facebook to block the upload of any image that has the same hash, even before it is sent to the company's servers.

It is humiliating and degrading when intimate images of someone are shared without their consent, and we want to do everything we can to stop this abuse and help the victims. This is a first step to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Davis finished, once again stating that Facebook is at the forefront of protecting its users. Is it really to be trusted? Who among us after all the recent scandals would really have the courage to share their "nudes" with Facebook? Of course, the help of external third parties should guarantee the non-use of the material sent for other purposes, however there remains a part of skepticism towards the action taken.