Facebook asks women to upload their nude images so they can protect them from revenge porn
 

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.

Facebook 'remembers' nude images to combat revenge porn - BBC News

I honestly expected the link to lead to the onion website...

sounds like fake news :)

WTF? I can't imagine someone who has been through the trauma of having their intimate photos shared by strangers would be keen to UPLOAD THEIR NUDE PICTURES TO A WEBSITE

One that knows their name and a heap of details about their online life. :helpme

I was going to suggest the fingerprinting could be done client side, so that no image data is ever shared with Facebook, but that fingerprint will still be linked to an actual photo when/if it gets uploaded to FB by someone else...

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This looks like the original article. It's week old news, but the rest of the world seems to be jumping on it today :)

Revenge porn: Facebook teaming up with Government to stop nude photos ending up on Messenger, Instagram - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Sounds like a good ideea.

I sent my nude photos to Facebook and they returned them marked "Unwatchable".

WTF??

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Yes, we all know that. Recent years really show how "Secure" are American companies:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

later it will be "OOPPSS ! sorry ! wasnt us ! rogue employee, wont happen again ! "

Amazing!

Holy fuck. The average facebook user must be completely retarded for facebook to even consider to ask this :1orglaugh this is proof they know their users are complete gullible morons :1orglaugh

Sound like e-exhibitionism niche. All that riks is turning them on.

you need to be spanked and punished for such naughty, naughty thoughts.

Unless the instructions are idiot proof, some fools will upload their nude photos to their timelines.

This is probably one of the real reasons behind it, after some hottie accidentally does this and it makes the headlines, plenty more guys will join Facebook hoping for some luck

Main reason to do it is for CIA guys to be entertained when they are bored

It will generate comedy too when the grandma below misunderstands and creates a new group with her nudes in

facebook told me my cock was to big.

I don't trust Facebook after the Russia thing. Send them to me for safekeeping.

it´s not, I read this earlier from a paper like the independent & the BBC don´t fake :2 cents:

I can imagine most of them would do that in order to get public images deleted. I mean I am pretty sure at elast 90% would do that, strange that you think otherwise.

Anyways, I understood that image uploading is supposed to happen before somebody revenge pranks you, to prevent it. Not postng after the trauma.

The concept is good, in theory, but I think it's very, very risky. Not sure I would entrust facebook with my nudes, considering the fact that they could get everywhere anyway, even if this is supposed to be a risk-prevention idea.

That's phase 1.
In phase 2 they open Facebook Gold to the public for the low monthly price of $29.95.

As if there are not enough nude images online. FB should join a site.

Facebook is only one site. There's plenty of others sites on the internet where you can share images with groups of people. Bit like being banned from one pub in a town that has 50 of them.

I think it's ludicrous that you'd proactively upload your intimate images to a multinational corporation.

What happens if you accidentally hit the "share with friends" button instead of "share nudes with yourself" button? :1orglaugh

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lol..........

Ok so when they had the meeting about this new practice, did anyone in the meeting speak up and say "Uhhh....every girl asked to do this will have an intrusive thought about Facebook employees jerking off to her picture."

Wouldn't Facebook simply need only a CRC or HASH of the photos?

"Oh, um...yeah. But...um, we need the photos to be in our possession. So we can make the CRC/HASH ourselves, for your convenience. Yeah, that's it."

So you send them your nude pictures to protect you?
You can keep it to yourself, if it's been leaked elsewhere then that's the problem kicks in.

Facebook is a hilarious joke.

Even just knowing the hash can still ultimately result in shenanigans. Example: high level engineer at Facebook codes up something to save an uploaded image when a hash matches. Perhaps he's also previously browsed the profiles of girls who have submitted hashes, to whittle down his wishlist.

That's creepy and very probable at the same time :helpme