If you’re worried about nudes or other intimate images circulating on social media, Facebook has a solution. Send them copies.
The social media service, which just this year settled a privacy lawsuit for using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without permission, is now asking users to trust it and take a bigger risk. It has partnered with a UK based nonprofit called Revenge Porn Helpline. The goal is to build a tool to prevent intimate images from being uploaded without consent to Facebook, Instagram and other participating platforms.
The tool launched Thursday, and asks users to submit the images to a central, global website called StopNCII.org, which stands for “Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Images.”
“It’s a massive step forward,” said Sophie Mortimer, the helpline’s manager, speaking to NBC News. “The key for me is about putting this control over content back into the hands of people...
The social media service, which just this year settled a privacy lawsuit for using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without permission, is now asking users to trust it and take a bigger risk. It has partnered with a UK based nonprofit called Revenge Porn Helpline. The goal is to build a tool to prevent intimate images from being uploaded without consent to Facebook, Instagram and other participating platforms.
The tool launched Thursday, and asks users to submit the images to a central, global website called StopNCII.org, which stands for “Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Images.”
“It’s a massive step forward,” said Sophie Mortimer, the helpline’s manager, speaking to NBC News. “The key for me is about putting this control over content back into the hands of people...
- 12/5/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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