Facebook Says They Need Your Nudes to Protect You From Revenge Porn

Facebook says they need you to send them your nudes, but for a good reason...?

The social media site says that if you send the company a copy of any incriminating photos, they can prevent them from ever appearing on their website.

Facebook says they wouldn't store your photos, but will use the copy to create a digital footprint so its image-matching technology can prevent any future uploads of said picture.

The catch? The image needs to be uploaded online first, which as digital forensics expert Lesley Carhart explains is where the beginning of the end can start.

"Yes, they're not storing a copy, but the image is still being transmitted and processed. Leaving forensic evidence in memory and potentially on disk.

My specialty is digital forensics, and I literally recover deleted images from computer systems all day — off disk and out of system memory. It's not trivial to destroy all trace of files, including metadata and thumbnails."

Australia's eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant says Facebook is partnering with them to pilot the program.

"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.

They're not storing the image, they're storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies."

Lawyer Carrie Goldberg, who specializes in sexual privacy says she thinks the initiative is a great idea to fight revenge porn.

"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. So this is impactful."


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