The social media platform and dating app have joined the fight against the nonconsensual sharing of intimate photos.
dating app in 2022, it’s about damn time. TikTok and Bumble did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request for comment on the initiative.. StopNCII allows those who suspect they are the subject of revenge porn to submit intimate photos of themselves to the website’s secured database.
The image is then converted into a digital fingerprint called a hash, which will then be shared with TikTok and Bumble, who will scan for the hash on their platforms and pull it if it’a similar program in Australia in 2017. Since then, Instagram and Facebook have been running a souped-up version of the tracking system that has aided a reported 12,000 users and found 40,000 photos and videos.
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