Would you voluntarily send Facebook nude photos of yourself? The company is insisting it needs them - for your own protection.
Let's say you have a spiteful ex who decides to embarrass you by posting a nude photo made in private. Facebook says if you send the photo to the company first, it will make sure it never shows up on its site.
But can you trust Facebook? The company says it won't store the photos but instead create a digital footprint so that its image-matching technology can prevent any future uploading of a copy of the photograph.
"It would be like sending yourself your image in email, but obviously this is a much safer, secure end-to-end way of sending the image without sending it through the ether," says Australia's eSafety commissioner,
This is called Revenge P0rn. Four percent of internet users have fallen victim to it, and 10 percent of women under 30 have had someone threaten to post explicit photos of them online against their will, according to a 2016 study by Data & Society.
Facebook is piloting the program in Australia in partnership with the country's Office of the eSafety Commissioner, a government agency dedicated to online safety. Next, it'll be tested in the United States, Britain and Canada, the Times of London reported (What about Africa?).
Let’s be sincere here, will you send Facebook your nude pictures?
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