Facebook wants Australians to upload their nudes to its Messenger app to help Facebook mark them as non-consensual explicit media, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Apparently revenge porn is a big problem Down Under (pun intended) and Facebook has teamed up with Australian government agency e-Safety to stop people from sharing intimate photos of other people without their consent.
How it works is that you send yourself a naked photo of yourself on Messenger. The photo itself is not stored, just the link to the photo, which then allows Facebook to use artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies to recognize the photo in the future without having need to store them on Facebook's servers.
So if anyone tries to share the nude you uploaded, it will be flagged as non-consensual sharing and blocked.
This isn't the first time Facebook has tried to tackle revenge porn. In April, Facebook launched photo-matching technology that meant photos flagged and tagged as revenge porn could no longer be shared on its platform.
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