Facebook wants you to send them nude pictures of your self.

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RichardMIT
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Facebook wants you to send them nude pictures of your self.

Post by RichardMIT » Thu Nov 09, 2017 6:40 am

Facebook is testing a new feature in Australia to combat revenge porn on the platform. This is how it works.
As part of the program, users are being asked to upload nude photos of themselves to the social network voluntarily.

Am I the only one that sees so many different ways for there to be the potential for abuse with this idea?

We all now that face book never really deletes anything. (consider several legal cases where items had been deleted years before but were still pulled from facebook archives and used as evidence)

My suggestion never trust a company that is heavily funded by government spy and 'national security' agencies / groups.

reference:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... rn-program


Nudes You Send Facebook as Part of Its Anti Revenge-Porn Program
Facebook is testing a new feature in Australia to combat revenge porn on the platform. This is how it works.

Louise Matsakis
Nov 9 2017, 7:07am


Will Mark Zuckerberg one day witness a blurred photo of my nude body? I asked myself this question after finding out how Facebook designed a new pilot program its testing in Australia to curb the spread of revenge porn. We now have more clarity from Facebook about how it will work.

As part of the program, users are being asked to upload nude photos of themselves to the social network voluntarily. The process works like this: First a user files a report with the Australian eSafety Commissioner’s office. Then, they upload an explicit picture of themselves to Facebook Messenger (they can do this by starting a conversation with themselves) and flag it as a “non-consensual intimate image” for the social network.
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A member of Facebook’s community operations team then manually confirms that the image is in violation of the company’s policies. The images will be blurred-out and only accessible to a specially-trained team, according to an email from a Facebook spokesperson.

The remainder of the process is then automated. Facebook builds what is a referred to as a “hash” of the image, meaning it creates a unique sketch or fingerprint of the file. If another user tries to upload the image to Facebook or Instagram, Facebook will test it against its stored hashes, and stop it from being distributed if it is marked as revenge porn.

In the original article I wrote explaining the new anti-revenge porn feature, I said that Facebook was not storing the photos, only the hashes. Answers to a series of follow-up questions I sent to Facebook revealed that the social network is indeed storing the blurred out images for a period of time. It’s not clear how long that period is.

The spokesperson said that while they are being stored, the naked photos will only be accessible to a small group of people. After Facebook discards the images, it will only retain the hashes. The spokesperson said that Facebook is not able to reconstruct images based on the hashes they keep.

Facebook is likely having human reviewers be part of the process in order to prevent legitimate images from being inadvertently tagged as revenge porn. As recent studies have shown, image-recognition algorithms are still extremely easy to spoof.

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