Facebook and Instagram will help prevent the spread of teens' intimate photos
, an initiative from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that helps young people and their parents remove intimate photos posted online. The system relies on locally stored photos, but theoretically protects privacy.
Instead of sharing the photos themselves, concerned users visit Take It Down to upload generated hashes. If Facebook, Instagram and other program members spot those hashes elsewhere, they can pull and block the content so it won't proliferate. Meta notes that this isn't just for those under 18, either. Parents can act on a child's behalf, and adults can scrub images taken of them when they were younger.
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