“If you’ve had a nude photo taken, you might be nervous about where it could end up,” Caitlyn Gribbin reports for ABC News Australia. “Your phone may be hacked or a relationship turn sour, meaning the “revenge porn” picture could be made public without your say so.”
“Now, Facebook is partnering with a small Australian Government agency to prevent sexual or intimate images being shared without the subject’s consent. e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said victims of ‘image-based abuse’ would be able to take action before photos were posted to Facebook, Instagram or Messenger,” Gribbin reports. “If you’re worried your intimate photos will end up on Instagram or Facebook, you can get in contact with the e-Safety Commissioner. They might then tell you to send the images to yourself on Messenger.”
“Yep, you heard that right. Send your own nudes … to yourself,” Gribbin reports. “Once the image is sent via Messenger, Ms Inman Grant said Facebook would use technology to ‘hash’ it, which means creating a digital fingerprint or link. ‘They’re not storing the image, they’re storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies,’ she said. ‘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.’ If the program goes according to plan, the photo will never show up on Facebook, even if a hacker or your ex tries to upload it.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, um, no.
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Why not?
sure….seems reasonable to give “blackmail” ready materials to some FakeBook schlub keeping an “inventory” of your dik pics and vjayjay-booby bullsh!t……no chance of this being misused by Gubbermint or private interests either…….!!! JFC FFS!!!
Remember– “not a smidgeon of CoRruPTioN”!! BULLSHIT!
FB thinks they’re the internet or something. It does absolutely no good if the revenger uploads it to Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Imgur, or heck just modifies the picture enough to change the footprint/hash.
At least they’re trying to do something. Some idiots will make an attempt and then just give up. It can’t make it any worse so why not try it?
“It can’t make it any worse so why not try it?”
Facebook is biggest scam artist out there, I dumped FB years ago but I still receive friend request emails all the time, I’m sure I’m being counted in their user analytics, ie ad clicks.
Assbook doesn’t have the required resolution to post my nude photos.
thank god
lol
Ha, ha, ha! Thanks for the chuckle. 🙂
I am prone to hyperbole. 🙂
Tiny penis syndrome?
Facebook must be looking for a group to make them look good because they sure have found it. Sounds like something that will be as successful at their crown jewel, the Holden. I wonder how that’s holden up these days?
If they wanted to come out with an app which would do the hashing, and let us upload the hash, that’s fine; but I don’t take nude pics at all, ever, and I certainly wouldn’t upload them.
Good grief, is it April 1st already? Facebook is AOL. Hell, no. I don’t have any nude pics, but if I did, I would not be sending them to Facebook, that’s for sure. It’s bad enough people were uploading them to iCloud. Technological literacy classes – they should be in every school!
Got any naked photos of your wife?
NO?
wanna buy some?
It’s just stupid to take ANY in the 1st place!! Duh!
Open nude in image editor, save as different resolution, image now has a different hash value. This would really only stop people from posting the exact same file, not screen shots, not edited copies.