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I couldn't believe it. This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

• colordrops 9y ago
  It really does seem like something an elite private club would do to get a laugh out of fooling the proles while smoking a cigar and browsing the pictures.
  • Crespyl 9y ago
    > they "trust me" ... dumb f*cks
  • dwaltrip 9y ago
    It's more like oblivious high-paid product managers and devs who can't fathom why people wouldn't trust Facebook or that Facebook might not be a purely beneficial organization.
    • threeseed 9y ago
      I think you've completely missed the point here. Teenagers who have naked photos in the possession of their peers need a solution for preventing dissemination. And so if you're in this situation trusting Facebook is by far the lesser of two evils.
      • CamperBob2 9y ago
        How is Facebook legally able to solicit child pornography? Because it sounds like that's what they're doing.
• threeseed 9y ago
  Sexting is quite common about young adults and so is the subsequent sharing of those photos. Being able to stop that from happening is incredibly valuable. I am just surprised Facebook didn't instead look at a way of running these image hashing algorithms on the device instead.
  • madenine 9y ago
    I think they look for modifications of the photo as well so a cropping/tilt/text overlay/etc would still be flagged. Their model might require per-processing beyond what they can or want to deploy on-device.
  • golangnews 9y ago
    There is a much better way to stop it happening.
    • threeseed 9y ago
      And that would be what, exactly ?