FB combats revenge porn with nude photos

San Francisco, Nov. 8: In an effort to tackle revenge porn, Facebook has come up with a controversial idea. The social media giant is asking users to upload their nude photos or videos.

Facebook is urging users to send the pictures to themselves on the Messenger app so that its algorithm can be trained to recognise explicit images, the Mirror reported. It can block the images later if they are uploaded as revenge porn. Facebook will “hash” the image, which means give it a digital fingerprint.

Facebook has started a trial run in Australia and has teamed up with the

THE social network is asking users to upload their naked photos or videos.

IT WILL create a ‘hash’ —a digital fingerprint of the photo — so that it can be recognised the next time it is uploaded and block it.

office of the Australian government’s e-safety commissioner. “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,” e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant told the Australia Broadcasting Corporation.

Ms Grant has assured those who upload the pictures that Facebook does not store the. “They’re storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies,” she said.

If a disgruntled ex-partner or a hacker tries to upload the image to Facebook, Instagram or Messenger in an act of revenge porn, the digital fingerprint will be recognised and it will be prevented from being uploaded. —