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Facebook will take digital fingerprints of intimate photos to prevent copies being uploaded.
Quote:Facebook is testing a system that allows users to message themselves their nude photos in an effort to combat so-called revenge porn.
It will store a "fingerprint" of images to prevent any copies of them being shared by disgruntled ex-lovers.
The trial is in Australia, where studies suggest one in five women aged 18-45 may have had image-based abuse.
But one expert says there will still be problems outside Facebook and related sites such as WhatsApp and Instagram.
Facebook said it looked forward "to getting feedback and learning" from the trial.
Revenge porn is a growing issue in Australia, according to e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, who is working with Facebook on the trial.
"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," she told ABC News.
'Innovative'
She sought to reassure potential victims who might be concerned about proactively sending themselves intimate photos.
"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," she said.
"They're not storing the image, they're storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies."
Users wanting to take part in the trial must first file a report with the commissioner, who will in turn share it with Facebook.
Prof Clare McGlynn, an expert from Durham Law School, described it as "an innovative experiment".
"I welcome Facebook taking steps to tackle this issue, as it has often been very slow to act in the past. However, this approach is only ever going to work for a few people and when we think of the vast number of nudes taken and shared each day, this clearly isn't a solution," she told the BBC.
Graham Cluley, a security consultant, said that security would be the priority.
"Facebook knows that there will be many people concerned about how it handles such sensitive content, and I imagine they have put a good deal of thought into minimising the chances that anything goes wrong."
In March, Facebook was embroiled in a scandal when it emerged that a 30,000-strong private members group, Marine United, was routinely sharing images of nude women.
The group - made up of US marines - shared photographs of naked and semi-naked female colleagues.
In response to the revelations, Facebook introduced a feature that tagged pictures reported to it as revenge porn using photo-matching technology. It used this to prevent the image spreading and closed down the majority of accounts reported to it as hosting such images.
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Brilliant!
In order to protect themselves against the risk that some of their embarrassing photos or videos might be uploaded to the Internet by someone else women should upload all of their embarrassing photos or videos to the Internet themselves.
* Sid facepalms
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They should upload them to me too and I will notify them if I spot them anywhere.
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I too would be willing to preview amateur pornography and promise that if I ever spot the image online, I will definitely NOT download it.
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Nov 09, 2017, 02:29 am
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A really good solution to this would be for them not to either take, or allow to be taken, nude pics of themselves. I guess the stupid people never thought of that.
'I don't want anyone to see me naked, but take 100 pics and vids of me anyway. I know they won't end up on the internet. I trust you.' LOL.
They deserve what they get.
Like all these celebrities uploading their nude pics and vids to the cloud. If they don't know what the cloud is, then too bad for them.
Ignorance or stupidity is not an excuse for your own bad behavior.
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Facebook's community operations team, not algorithms, will view photos sent to combat revenge porn.
Quote:Humans rather than algorithms will view the naked images voluntarily sent to Facebook in a scheme being trialled in Australia to combat revenge porn.
The BBC understands that members of Facebook's community operations team will look at the images in order to make a "fingerprint" of them to prevent them being uploaded again.
Facebook will notify the person once the photo has been "hashed'.
It will then be up to the sender to delete the image.
The trial, which could be extended to other countries, is seen as a way of of allowing users greater control over their intimate photos - offering a a pre-emptive protection against future misuse of the pictures by disgruntled ex-lovers.
'Redouble efforts'
Users wanting to take part in the scheme must first complete an online form on the Australian e-safety commissioner's website.
Then they need to message themselves their nude photos via Messenger and the e-safety commissioner's office will notify Facebook of their submission.
A Facebook community officer can access those photos to "hash" them, and they will then notify the person via the secure email provided via the commissioner's website.
Revenge porn is a growing issue in Australia where studies suggest that one in five women aged 18-45 may have been victims.
Experts in the field have welcomed the initiative but have warned that it will only tackle the problem on Facebook and its associated sites, WhatsApp and Instagram.
Prof Clare McGlynn, from Durham Law School, said that the UK should establish a similar organisation to Australia's e-safety commission.
"We must redouble efforts to challenge the root causes - challenging those who share images without consent," she said.
"We must condemn such forms of non-consensual sexual activity in the strongest terms, and work with young people on this."
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hahahahaha
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<from the floor> That has GOT to be a fucking joke.
If not then your dream job really is waiting for you in Australia guys. I might even emigrate myself.
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BRB, getting job at Facebook...
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Well if they want to put nude pictures to Facebook... I am gonna wait for wikileaks and a torrent to come to TPB.
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I literally couldn't believe this story when I first heard it. I thought it was from the Onion or something. But it was real. This is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. 'You don't want people to see naked pictures of yourself? Send us naked pictures of yourself.'
I think Zuckerberg has finally lost his last few marbles.
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