Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Facebook Has An Interesting Strategy To Prevent Revenge Porn In an effort to combat the possibility of revenge porn, Facebook is asking its Australian users to upload pictures of themselves naked. Yep, you read that right. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. , Facebook is doing a partnership with the country’s e-Safety Commissioner in order to develop a pilot program that will both block and remove vindictive image-sharing on Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Those who are concerned that their personal nude photos will be leaked have been asked to send their risky pics to themselves via Messenger. Once the image is sent through the app, Facebook can digitally “hash” the image, creating a digital footprint. E-Safety Commissioner Julie 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.” According to Motherboard however, blurred out versions of the images will actually be temporarily stored by Facebook but it’s unclear for exactly how long. A reporter said, “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.” So every time you send a sultry picture to somebody you might not fully trust–you probably shouldn’t do that anyway, but that’s a whole other story–just send the pictures to yourself on Facebook Messenger while you’re at it. Seems legit…
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Facebook Wants You To Upload Your Own Nude Photos So Nobody Else Can…Seriously
