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The NAKED truth: Why flashing us your nude pics is a good idea – by Facebook's safety boss
We can explain, insists multibillion-dollar social network
By Iain Thomson - 10 Nov 2017

Amid days of intense debate over about its controversial plan to block revenge porn on its social network, Facebook sought to calm fears about the program.

Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, on Thursday attempted to clarify details about the system, which is being tested right now in Australia, and is heading to the UK, America and Canada. In doing so she has made some good points regarding the approach taken, but also revealed some limitations.

Essentially, the system works like this: if you suspect someone has copies of photos of you naked and is going to leak them on Facebook, you can preemptively upload those snaps to a private chat area of the network where a trained staffer will verify the photo, and generate and store a digital signature of the image. Once that happens, the users should delete the image from the message thread, removing it from the network.

If any photos are subsequently posted on Facebook that match one of these signatures, it will be automatically blocked. Thus, if someone shares one of your previously submitted nude pics, the action will be halted before any damage is done.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/facebook_nude_photos_explained/