A new online tool aims to give some control back to teens, or people who were once teens, and take down explicit images and videos of themselves from the internet.
NEW YORK — "Once you send that photo, you can't take it back," goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring the reality that many teens send explicit images of themselves under duress, or without understanding the consequences.
CNN reports Take It Down will allow minors for the first time to anonymously attach the hash to intimate images or videos directly from their own devices, without having to upload them to the new platform. To create a hash of an explicit image, a teen can visit the websiteto install software onto their device.
"Take It Down is made specifically for people who have an image that they have reason to believe is already out on the Web somewhere, or that it could be," said Gavin Portnoy, a spokesman for the NCMEC. "You're a teen and you're dating someone and you share the image. Or somebody extorted you and they said, 'if you don't give me an image, or another image of you, I'm going to do X, Y, Z.
But in that time, online sexual extortion and exploitation has only gotten worse, for children and teens as well as for adults. Many tech companies already use this hash system to share, take down and report to law enforcement images of child sexual abuse. Portnoy said the goal is to have more companies sign up.Twitter and TikTok so far have not committed to the project. Neither company immediately respond to a message for comment Sunday.
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