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RTL Post Featured in CloudNine E-Discovery Blog

December 26, 2017

On November 9th, Doug Austin of CloudNine featured the Ride the Lightning (RTL) blog post “Facebook: Upload Your Nude Photos to Prevent Revenge Porn – Huh?” in his own post. His blog post, “Facebook Wants You to Send Them Your Naked Pictures to Prevent Revenge Porn. I’m Not Kidding: Data Privacy Trends” is featured in CloudNine’s eDiscovery Daily Blog. CloudNine is a legal intelligence technology company with deep expertise in the analysis, processing, and review of electronically stored information (ESI). Ride the Lightning is an electronic evidence and cybersecurity blog by Sensei’s Sharon Nelson.

Excerpt: The author notes that she has submitted questions to Facebook for more info and poses an interesting question in the article: “For example, what safeguards are in place to ensure that people can’t take any old picture they want – a non-porn publicity photo, for example – and send it in, under the false premise that it’s a nude and that it’s a photo they themselves have the rights to have expunged from social media circulation?”

Good question. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting concept and idea to prevent revenge porn – provided you can actually convince people to upload those photos and trust Facebook with them.

So, what do you think? Do you trust hash technology to keep your most embarrassing photos from becoming public? As always, please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Hat tip to Sharon Nelson and her Ride the Lightning blog (my go to source for interesting cybersecurity news) for the reference to the story.

See the entire blog post here.