Humans rather than algorithms will view the naked images voluntarily sent to Facebook in a scheme being trialled in Australia to combat revenge porn. The BBC understands that members of Facebook's community operations team will look at the images in order to make a "fingerprint" of them to prevent them being uploaded again.
Facebook will notify the person once the photo has been "hashed'. It will then be up to the sender to delete the image.
The trial, which could be extended to other countries, is seen as a way of of allowing users greater control over their intimate photos - offering a a pre-emptive protection against future misuse of the pictures by disgruntled ex-lovers.
This reminds me of when those full body scanners were introduced into airports, and we were "reassured" that the images would only be examined by trained professionals in a darkened room...
All together now : what could possibly go wrong ?
http://www.bbc.com/news/41928848
What could go wrong? It's not like hackers have ever stolen a billionnnnnnnever mind.
ReplyDeleteAl Hunt No, no, the correct answer is : everything. Everything could go wrong. And it will.
ReplyDeleteThe premise on which the scheme is built is flawed... And by flawed, I mean so wrong it barely registers any sense that it could achieve anything. But it just keeps getting worse.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to find some pictures of monkeys' anuses to upload.