Facebook To Use Photo-Matching To Block Repeat 'Revenge Porn' (aol.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from AOL: Facebook is adding tools to make it easier for users to report so-called "revenge porn" and to automatically prevent the images from being shared again once they have been banned, the company said. "Revenge porn" refers to the sharing of sexually explicit images on the internet, without the consent of the people depicted in the pictures, in order to extort or humiliate them. The practice disproportionately affects women, who are sometimes targeted by former partners. Beginning on Wednesday, users of the world's largest social network should see an option to report a picture as inappropriate specifically because it is a "nude photo of me," Facebook said in a statement. The company also said it was launching an automated process to prevent the repeat sharing of banned images. Photo-matching software will keep the pictures off the core Facebook network as well as off its Instagram and Messenger services, it said.

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Re: Cruel to be Kind

[Zero__Kelvin]

Oh bullshit. I've had very revealing pictures in my phone. When we broke up I deleted them. Not EVERY man is untrustworthy, but since you think so that certainly shows that YOU aren't.