The social media giant Facebook is now testing a new pre-emptive method where you have to send your own nudes to yourself via the Messenger app to combat with revenge porn in Australia.
The meaning of the term 'Revenge porn' is a sexually explicit portrayal of an individual or many, which is distributed without their consent via any medium.
According to media reports, it is a joint operation of Facebook and the Australian government agency e-Safety. This process would help Facebook to create a digital fingerprint for the picture by using its hashing system and mark it as non-consensual explicit media.
"The safety and wellbeing of the Facebook community is our top priority," said Facebook's Head of Global Safety Antigone Davis.
So people who are concerned about their intimate images and have a fear that what will happen if someone, possibly an ex-lover would make it public via social media then the person should contact the Australian agency e-Safety. Then the organization might ask that person to send a nude photo to themselves via Messenger and the rest will be done by Facebook.
"It would be like sending yourself your image in an email, but obviously this is a much safer, secure end-to-end way of sending the image without sending it through the ether," e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant told ABC as quoted by IANS.
"They're not storing the image, they're storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies," Grant further added.
"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," she concluded.
