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Facebook Screws Up A Critical Piece Of Its Anti-Revenge Porn Tech
At the end of 2017, Facebook announced a pilot program that lets users send the company their intimate photos and videos that they don’t want to be shared on its main platform as well as Instagram. Facebook said in March that it is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect that content, and in…
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Man Allegedly Used Fake Facebook Surveys To Solicit Password Clues And Extort Nude Photos From Women
A former NASA contractor has been arrested for allegedly hacking into several women’s Facebook and email accounts in order to obtain intimate photos, and using them as blackmail unless they provided him with additional nude photos. The man, 28-year-old Richard Gregory Bauer, was arrested on Thursday local time.
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Thousands Of Women Take To The Streets As South Korea Confronts Spycam Porn
On Saturday, about 22,000 women reportedly rallied in Seoul, South Korea to protest spycam porn, known as “molka”. The demonstration, which AFP reporter Hawon Jung said was the largest women’s rally in South Korean history, also called for better laws and investigations with regards to these crimes.
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Texas Court Strikes Down Revenge Porn Law For Being ‘Overbroad’
A state appeals court in Texas has struck down a 2015 revenge porn law, arguing that it was written too broadly and infringed on free speech protections.