Facebook asks victims of revenge porn to submit nude self photos

Social media giant Facebook is attempting to combat revenge porn.

Facebook has teamed up with Australia's eSafety office, which allows users to upload nude photos preemptively directly to Facebook Messenger so the company can create a digital fingerprint of sorts for the file to then prevent it from being uploaded maliciously in the future.

There’s a catch, however. Users worried an inappropriate image might appear on Facebook's platforms are asked to send an intimate image via Messenger, a preventive measure designed to flag the images before they're shared.

Here's how the program works: You upload whichever photo you want hidden from the internet. A new artificial intelligence technology remembers the picture and zaps it. If anyone tries to post it to Facebook messenger or Instagram, computer security specialists have four big questions surrounding the test program: Where does Facebook store the intimate photos after they're uploaded? How does the social media giant protect those photos from hackers? What if the photo is altered? Will the artificial intelligence technology recognize it?

The program has only been launched in Australia, but will make its way to the United States.

Two years ago, North Carolina lawmakers made it a criminal offense to share nude or sexual images of someone without that person's permission.

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