Facebook wants to fight revenge porn by seeing your nudes

Julia Inman Grant, Australia’s e-safety commissioner, said that the technology will allow victims of “image-based abuse” to take action before explicit pictures are shared using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.

Facebook will then put a digital fingerprint on the image and will block the sensitive image from appearing if someone tries to upload that same image to Facebook or Instagram.

Facebook employees will only see a blurred version of the image, then they’ll apply the “hash” to it before it is deleted.

But don’t suppress those instincts just yet: this is only a test and Facebook may not even know all of the features’ vulnerabilities just yet. Or want to ensure that you are not a victim of revenge porn?

For it is asking its members to upload their own nude images or videos on Messenger so that the social media company can create a hash of those. The Telegraph reported that to provide the photos directly to Facebook, users should send them through the Messenger app.

Users, who fear that their intimate photos could end up on Facebook, need to first file a report with Grant’s office, which will then share it with Facebook. Facebook will use their cutting-edge image matching technology to stop those images from being uploaded.

The system Facebook is experimenting with is similar to the algorithm Google uses to detect – and automatically remove – copyrighted material on YouTube.

“We look forward to building on these tools and working with other companies to explore how they could be used across the industry”.

In all, 15 percent report receiving threats to post an explicit image an image of them online, and seven percent have actually had such images circulated digitally. With its billions of users, Facebook is one place where many offenders aggress because they can maximize the harm by broadcasting the nonconsensual porn to those most close to the victim.

Revenge porn is one of the latest online problems, and it’s one to which it would seem hard to come up with a solution. The same, Facebook would like us to believe, will act to prevent anyone to get along with revenge porn tactics. If they decide the images have been shared violate Facebook’s community standards, in many cases, the account which shared the image will be disabled, the company said.