Facebook and Instagram prevent the distribution of intimate photos of teenagers

A common problem that users of the social networks the victims of cyber attacks is the loss of control or leakage of intimate photographs that may be disseminated in the Internet by extortionists or cybercriminals. Although these situations are irreversible, Facebook e instagram They are part of a project that could help reduce the negative impact of the situation.

The two social networks were part of the foundation of a new platform called “Take that offwhich is dedicated to detecting and removing intimate content related to young people and minors in the event of dissemination in these applications, so that the impact can be reduced. East website uses a special detection system that requires support from sites like Facebook, instagram (social networks), only fans (selling content online) and Yubo (live streams), which are also part of the initiative.

According to the information presented by the site, this free service was created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) of the United States and may remove sexual content and nudity (partial and full) that has been filtered on the project’s participating platforms. To do this, the victim must have a copy of the archive sensitive and gives you an anonymous detection label without the need to share the content with the platform.

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To use the tool, which is available free of charge to any user, whether over or under the age of 18, they must follow these steps:

– Enter the site of Take that off (takeitdown.ncmec.org/es/), which is in Spanish and English according to the geographic location of the user.

– Click or press the “Start” button located in the first tab at the top of the screen.

– Once inside the platform, Users must complete a form indicating the approximate age of the user as well as the type of content that has the Photography that you want to delete.

– People should also identify what type of content that has been leaked or broadcast includes nuditypartial nudity or sexually explicit content.

– In case the answer is “yes” or “I don’t know”, people must also indicate if the content has already been shared previously.

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It is at this point that users should use the Take that off to select files containing intimate pictures. The platform says this will not mean the content has been shared with them, but will be used to give them a identification code which will be completely anonymous.

The “fingerprint” of photography is called chopwhich is shared with the system, so that content can be detected regardless of the platform it is on without the need for the archive get out of computer oh cellphone which contains it.

With the information available, users will receive a case number which can then be used to verify the process followed to remove content from apps that are part of the Take It Down project.

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In the event that the victim of the leak of intimate content is an adult, users will be directed to the website from an organization called StopNCII which has a similar approach and has been operational since 2021 to prevent the dissemination of explicit intimate images online.