Facebook is testing a new feature to secure profile photos. Called Photo Guard, it lets you block the downloading of photos and their sharing. Once implemented, internet users will no longer be able to tag photos of people outside their network.
Tested in India to convince users
Purpose: to prevent certain users from using these photos without the owner's knowledge.
Currently, Photo Guard only applies to Indiareport RTL.
Indeed, in Indonesia, many users have expressed their fear of the internet giant. “Facebook today took another step in protecting women in India. “Many of them told us that they don't include their faces in their profile photos for fear of being taken advantage of by some people,” explained the social network's director of operations, Sheryl Sandberg, as reported by The Verge. World.
If these security settings are applied, they will be indicated by a blue border around the photo.
Facebook wants to prevent screenshots
American companies are already thinking about other functions. Therefore, he wants to prevent, “if possible”, screenshots of profile photos.
Facebook also plans to offer filters to apply to photos in profile. The social network noticed that modified photos are less likely to be misused.
Therefore, illustrator Jessica Singh set out to create a tool that made it possible to dress up photos to personalize them and make them harder to distract.
