Graham Cluley am, November 8, My hope and expectation is that Facebook will automate the process as much as possible, but that there may need to be some human involvement to review submitted images. 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. Update 9 November Facebook has published some more details of its scheme. For more discussion on this topic, be sure to listen to this episode of the Smashing Security podcast:. Your browser does not support this audio element. RSS More episodes So, how does it get consent?
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Facebook is again testing the boundaries of public trust. Piloting the idea in Australia, Facebook wants potential revenge porn victims to send nude photos of themselves to Facebook, so Facebook can store the information and block the photos from ever appearing on its platforms, Australian broadcaster ABC first reported. Facebook is partnering with the Office of the e-Safety Commissioner of Australia to carry out the program. To participate, users must first contact an e-Safety commissioner identifying themselves as potential revenge porn victims; the commissioner will then ask users to send a nude photo via Facebook Messenger, so that Facebook can extract the information of the image. At that point, user privacy is in the hands of a Facebook community operations analyst.
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Amy Binns does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. This unwanted sharing can have devastating consequences. Even the threat that the images could be shared can be used by controlling, violent abusers to force their victims into line, as has been recognised by a new Scottish law to criminalise this. The picture itself can then be deleted and Facebook has said images will not be stored permanently on their servers. When another Facebook user uploads a picture, it will be run through the database of hashes.
Facebook is a social networking service launched as TheFacebook on February 4, FaceMash , Facebook's predecessor, opened in , developed by Mark Zuckerberg ; he wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of "hot or not" game for Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to compare two female student pictures side by side and let them decide who was more attractive. While writing the software, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries: [10].