元and NGO look to stop intimate images spreading online

元-owned Facebook and Instagram have lunched a new platform with the US-based not-for-profit, The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), to proactively prevent young people’s intimate images from spreading online.

Take It Down, follows on from StopNCII, a platform developed to assist adult users stop the spread of their intimate images online.

“This world-first platform will offer support to young Australians to prevent the unwanted spread of their intimate images online, which we know can be extremely distressing for victims,” said Josh Machin, head of public policy, Meta Australia.

“我们来自专家的反馈,包括欧斯特ralia’s eSafety Commissioner, safety organisations, victims and law enforcement to develop this platform and dedicated resources for young people. Working collectively, we can help to combat this issue for young people online.”

Take It Down assists young people regain control of their intimate images by assigning a unique hash value – a numerical code – to their image or video privately and directly from their own device. Once they submit the hash to NCMEC, companies such as Meta can use those hashes to find any copies of the image, take them down and prevent the content from being posted on our apps in the future.

Take It Down allows people to only submit a hash, rather than the intimate image or video itself, to NCMEC. Hashing turns images or videos into a coded form that can no longer be viewed, producing hashes that are secure digital fingerprints.

把它与元financi设计al support and is being promoted across Meta’s platforms, in addition being integrated into Facebook and Instagram so that users can easily access it when reporting potentially violating content.

On Instagram, Meta recently introduced new features to make it even more difficult for suspicious adults to interact with teens. Now, these adults will no longer be able to see teen accounts when scrolling through the list of people who have liked a post or when looking at an account’s Followers or Following list. If a suspicious adult follows a teen account, Meta will send that teen a notification prompting them to review and remove the new follower. We are also prompting teens to review and restrict their privacy settings. When someone comments on a teen’s post, tags/mentions them in another post, or includes their content in Reels Remixes or Guides, the teen will receive a notification to review their privacy settings, and will have the option to stop people from interacting with them.

There are now more than 30 tools to support the safety of teens and families across Meta apps, including supervision tools for parents and age-verification technology that helps teens have age-appropriate experiences online.