“Revenge porn,” otherwise known as the dissemination of nonconsensual pornography, is the sharing of images or videos that portray a person engaged in an intimate or sexually explicit act without that person’s consent. Although the term “revenge porn” would seem to only entail sexually explicit content distributed with reprisal, its scope encompasses a variety of personal content obtained with or without consent, such as intimate images or videos privately shared with another in the context of a relationship or unshared content obtained by hackers.
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Consent, Appropriation by Manipulation, and the 10-Year Challenge: How an Internet Meme Complicated Biometric Information Privacy
In 2019, a viral Internet meme called the “10-Year Challenge” flooded social-media newsfeeds, asking users the question: “How hard did aging hit you?” Users responded by sharing side-by-side photographs of themselves from 2009 and 2019 with their followers. While the challenge spread across social-media platforms, commentators began speculating about the challenge’s origins after a writer for Wired magazine published an op-ed questioning whether Facebook used the challenge to train its facial recognition technology. The op-ed argued that the challenge, while seemingly harmless, could provide Facebook with a sufficient dataset to train its facial recognition technology on age progression. While Facebook denied playing a role in generating the challenge, the op-ed poignantly observes the chilling possibility of tech companies using manipulative tactics to compel disclosure of otherwise private information.
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