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This is insane. If they can fingerprint your images, why can't they provide a tool for processing the image and sending the fingerprint only? Can you imagine how big of a target a tailor made database of blackmail material linked to facebook accounts would be?
If you can send only the fingerprint, what stops you from uploading photos you are not in? A better idea may be an uploading tool where you can obscure some parts for verification.
isn't nudity generally banned on facebook anyway? I didn't realise this would/could be an issue. Unless they're talking about private communications in eg. messenger.
Revenge porn isn't all about nudity. And this does cover Messenger (and Instagram). The point isn't to get an image taken down after the fact, but to proactively block it from being posted or sent in the first place.
This is insane. If they can fingerprint your images, why can't they provide a tool for processing the image and sending the fingerprint only? Can you imagine how big of a target a tailor made database of blackmail material linked to facebook accounts would be?
The problem is that you presumably want the image to be blocked immediately upon upload.
But facebook is worried that people will abuse the system, and they don't want images to be instantly wrongfully blocked until someone can review it.
Abuse-resistance. Instant blocking. Perfect privacy. Pick two. There's no perfect solution.
Tricky. Sending them all of your potentially leaked embarrassing photos so that they can store them and prevent them from leaking out. If they get hacked now someone has a lifetime supply of blackmail material. Not clear if the cure is better than the ailment.
From the fine article: "We store the photo hash—not the photo—to prevent someone from uploading the photo in the future. If someone tries to upload the image to our platform, like all photos on Facebook, it is run through a database of these hashes and if it matches we do not allow it to be posted or shared."
Seems like a very awkward flow to forcefully repurpose Messenger to do something it shouldn't be doing.
Why do they need a human representative to hash the image? I don't understand why this can't all be done automatically. Creeps me out that a real human would see intimate pictures before they block them.
Why do they need a human representative to hash the image? I don't understand why this can't all be done automatically. Creeps me out that a real human would see intimate pictures before they block them.
Why do they need a human representative to hash the image? I don't understand why this can't all be done automatically. Creeps me out that a real human would see intimate pictures before they block them.
Granted I really wish this was all done on the client so Facebook didn't gain access to the images themselves but I'm not sure of a good way around it to verify the image is something they should remove and not an abuse of the system.