Teens will finally have a way to proactively stop the spread of intimate images.
Last year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) released data showing that it received overwhelmingly more reports of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) from Facebook than any other web service it tracked. Where other popular social platforms like Twitter and TikTok had tens of thousands of reports, Facebook had 22 million.
Today, Facebook announced new efforts to limit the spread of some of that CSAM on its platforms. Partnering with NCMEC, Facebook is building a “global platform” to prevent “sextortion” by helping “stop the spread of teens’ intimate images online.”
“We’re working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to build a global platform for teens who are worried intimate images they created might be shared on public online platforms without their consent,” Antigone Davis, Facebook’s VP, global head of safety, said in a blog post on Monday.
This global platform for teens will work similarly to the platform that Meta created to help adults combat “revenge porn,” Davis said, which Facebook said last year was “the first global initiative of its kind.” It lets users generate a hash to proactively stop images from being distributed on Facebook and Instagram.
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If you went into a store and in the back room someone was handing out illegal images they would be shut down and that person arrested. But big tech can have it in their possession and nothing happens.
Teens put stuff up they shouldn’t and a few years from now that photo ends up in someone else’s computer and they computer user gets’ arrested. What happen’s to the teen who uploaded it?
Don’t get me wrong I don’t want to go around arresting stupid kid’s, but at the same time I don’t want other’s going to jail for what that teen uploaded on purpose. I don’t know the solution, but something has got to give and I put alot of this on big tech for growing the problem. It is just all a mess.
At least someone is trying to do the cops job in doing something proactive instead of blaming the problem on registered citizens and doing things that make the registry harder.
Since those on the registry are not allowed on Facebook, you make a very good point. Again, the registry fails to protect children.