Facebook to Crack Down on Child Pornography

Facebook is about to start cracking down hardcore on child pornography shared through or stored on its site. The social networking site and Microsoft have announced that they will be joining forces in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's (NCMEC) PhotoDNA program to combat child pornography.

The program relies on a technology developed by Microsoft Research called PhotoDNA to digitally analyze images and look for matches in data against other known images of child pornography, which the NCMEC holds. Only photos of prepubescent children (under the age of 12) will be targeted.

According to a post on The New York Times' Gadgetwise blog, PhotoDNA currently can search for matches against 10,000 photos in NCMEC's database of 48 million images and videos. NCMEC has a Congressional mandate to act as a clearinghouse for the sensitive and illegal material to help identify victims and assist law enforcement with investigations, the Times reported.

Microsoft's technology analyzes photos in sections, rather than trying to match an entire image to another complete image, and can even detect matches when the images have been digitally altered.

Facebook's involvement in the program is a significant step toward actively rooting out child pornography online because it is the largest online sharing site for images. The site is also the first online service provider to join Microsoft and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the PhotoDNA project. Facebook will host a FacebookLive event and discussion to formally announce the partnership tomorrow (May 20) at 3 p.m. ET.

Firefox 4: Share Page on Twitter and Facebook at Once

Contributed by Siddharth Bose May 15, 2011  
Tagged: Browsers Mozilla Firefox  

We will be using an extension called F1 by Mozilla labs. Install it here.

Once installed, a f1 icon is displayed in the right side of the menu bar. Click on the f1 button to set it up the first time.

A list of social networks is displayed. Setup your Twitter and Facebook account by clicking on Add. Enter your credentials and grant it access.

On the Settings tab you can choose to check/uncheck the option which bookmarks every page you share.

Once the settings are done, click on Done.

Navigate to the page you want to share and hit the F1 button, i.e. the F1 function key and click on share in the pop-up window. The page is shared on your wall and posted to your wall.

Facebook: How do I move photos from one album to another?

Contributed by Lê Hoàng May 19, 2011  
Tagged: Internet  

1. Log in to your Facebook account.

2. Go to Photos app -> My Uploads.

3. Find the album that contains the photo(s) you want to move and click Edit Album.

4. Go to Edit Photos tab.

5. Find the photo that you want to move and select the destination album from the Move to drop down menu.

6. Hit Save Changes.

Note: This option only appears in the albums that you create. Other albums like Profile picture, Wall photos do not have this option.

Facebook to Crack Down on Child Pornography

Facebook is about to start cracking down hardcore on child pornography shared through or stored on its site. The social networking site and Microsoft have announced that they will be joining forces in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's (NCMEC) PhotoDNA program to combat child pornography.

The program relies on a technology developed by Microsoft Research called PhotoDNA to digitally analyze images and look for matches in data against other known images of child pornography, which the NCMEC holds. Only photos of prepubescent children (under the age of 12) will be targeted.

According to a post on The New York Times' Gadgetwise blog, PhotoDNA currently can search for matches against 10,000 photos in NCMEC's database of 48 million images and videos. NCMEC has a Congressional mandate to act as a clearinghouse for the sensitive and illegal material to help identify victims and assist law enforcement with investigations, the Times reported.

Microsoft's technology analyzes photos in sections, rather than trying to match an entire image to another complete image, and can even detect matches when the images have been digitally altered.

Facebook's involvement in the program is a significant step toward actively rooting out child pornography online because it is the largest online sharing site for images. The site is also the first online service provider to join Microsoft and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the PhotoDNA project. Facebook will host a FacebookLive event and discussion to formally announce the partnership tomorrow (May 20) at 3 p.m. ET.