Facebook is asking users in Australia to send the social media giant nude pictures in order to test out a new system designed to prevent revenge porn.
The technology uses image recognition to identify potential revenge porn and promptly deletes it.
The move goes hand in hand with Australia’s recent crackdown on revenge porn, where one in five women aged 18-45 and one in four indigenous Australians are victims.
Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant told the ABC News ”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,” adding that victims of ‘image-based abuse’ would be able to take action before photos were posted to Facebook, Instagram or Messenger.
Ms Inman Grant went further, saying ‘It would be like sending yourself your image in email, but obviously this is a much safer, secure end-to-end way of sending the image without sending it through the ether.‘
The Daily Mail reports:
Ms Inman Grant explained: ‘They’re not storing the image, they’re storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies.
‘So if somebody tried to upload that same image, which would have the same digital footprint or hash value, it will be prevented from being uploaded.’
If the technology works as expected, the photo should never appear on Facebook – even if a jealous ex tries to upload it.
Antigone Davis, head of global safety at Facebook, reassured that ‘the safety and well-being of the Facebook community is our top priority.’
She added: ‘As part of our continued efforts to better detect and remove content that violates our community standards, we’re using image matching technology to prevent non-consensual intimate images from being shared on Facebook.
‘These tools, developed in partnership with global safety experts, are one example of how we’re using new technology to keep people safe and prevent harm.’
While Facebook says they aren’t storing the nude pictures – and are instead keeping the “digital footprint” of the image on file, users may want to steer clear altogether, considering the company maintains a “non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license” to your photos per their EULA.
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Fuckerberg needs more pictures to beat off to.
Well, why not send nudes? I mean, what’s the diff? The dumbbells already gave up their privacy by revealing everything about their lives on social media, they store everything on their phones, let their phones do facial recognition, retina scans, etc. that get uploaded to CIA/NSA servers in Utah and elsewhere w/o consent.
They are storing a link? A link to what exactly? Either that is the dumbest idea ever or Australia needs a new e-Safety commissioner who can understand and use basic technical terms properly.
“Send us your nude pics (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and we’ll prevent revenge porn.” Laughable.