Facebook wants to fight revenge porn with your own photos
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They call it revenge porn. It is nothing more than publishing or disseminating explicit sexual content through the networks. And doing it, logically, without the consent of the person who appears in the images This is a more common circumstance than we might think. Often carried out by resentful ex-partners, who want to hurt their neighbor.
This, in the networks or wherever, is punishable.But with this type of abuse, all help is little. So Facebook has gone to work to fight revenge porn in a pilot program For now it will be rolled out in Australia, but if things go well, could work all over the world.
Facebook will begin to collaborate with the Australian government and the country's Electronic Security Commissioner to implement a series of measures or tools, useful for users. It is about avoiding as much as possible that this type of revenge porn images are published or circulated through the networks
Facebook's Anti-Revenge Porn Project
In Australia, the percentage of revenge porn that is posted online is very high. Hence, Facebook wanted to start its project there. According to data from Australia's own online safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, one in five Australian women between the ages of 18 and 45 and one in four indigenous have been victims of this type of abuse.
To achieve this, Facebook will implement an algorithm that will work automatically. It will detect as soon as possible nude photos that are being shared through tools such as Facebook Messenger or Instagram.
To date, Facebook had already been working on a tool that did not immediately block images that were posted. How will this new pilot now work?
Users who are concerned about their most intimate images being shared across networks, will be able to take action. Even before this happens (if it has to happen).
According to Techcrunch, the protagonists will be able to denounce the image in advance. And they can even do it before anything happens.
In this way, if someone is concerned that her ex-partner might share an intimate photo without her consent on social networks, they can warn them. And Facebook, in principle, will be able to block it and prevent its publication.
Facebook and the stakeholders involved in this pilot are clear that it is not an infallible tool. But it will undoubtedly be of great help to prevent certain images from being distributed illegally.
And where will these images be saved?
A first doubt that assails us. If users have to share their most intimate images before a bad guy does, what assurance can they have that the photos will be kept safe? In reality, what users will do is send them to themselves.
Facebook will use its technology to crack it. And they will create a kind of fingerprint. A unique link that will later be used to find matches, in case someone happens to share the image at some point.
In this way, the photograph will not be saved anywhere And it will not be able to be shared either, because in principle Facebook will be able to block it before anything happens. They are aware that detecting this type of image will be quite difficult, but without a doubt, every grain of sand counts.
