Users of the social network now have the possibility to request the removal of images in which they appear if they have been posted without their consent.
Le Monde with AFP
Twitter hardens his regulations against online harassment. The company has prohibited, on Tuesday, November 30, Internet users to publish images of others without their consent. The measurement translates into the possibility now left to the users of the social network to request the removal of images in which they appear if they were posted without their agreement.
“This update will allow us to take action on content that are not explicitly abusive but which have been shared without the agreement of the person in a statement,” said Twitter in a statement. Public figures are not concerned.
Multiplications of measures to clean up the social network
The right of Internet users to use platforms when images or data concerning them are posted by third parties, including malicious purposes, arouses debates for years.
Twitter, which has just changed the general manager, multiplies the measures to clean up the network and respond to criticism about the sometimes violent consequences of trade. The social network already prohibited the publication of private information, such as the telephone number or address of a person, but there are “growing concerns” on the use of such data for “harassing, intimidating or revealing the Identities of individuals “, note the group,” with disproportionate consequences for women, activists, political dissidents and members of minority communities “.
In particular, this phenomenon has touched the content creators of the Twitch platform, targeted by racist harassment campaigns, or alert launchers. It also concerns victims of sexual aggression, filmed during aggression.