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Comment by Am4TIfIsER0ppos | Hacker News Reader

> Submit clear detailed pictures of your face in order to find porn of yourself.

Do you think that is a good idea?

Would love clarity, what do you mean? That is the whole point of the service. If you don't submit a clear picture of yourself, there isn't any way for us to search.

I guess the concern is that you are going to link an anonymous pornographic video to a real identity you have confirmed with ID. Clearly a big security risk there that needs to be handled carefully.

For instance, if your alert email contains a link to the video, a bad actor who also had access to that email account now potentially had a blackmail opportunity.

I am sure you handle all this carefully but you have to admit it is fraught.

We are very careful with all outbound emails. We built an email system inside of our app to offer a second level of protection from adult sites.

You are making a great database. Ripe for governments, spies, stalkers, and trolls. Being as paranoid as I am I wonder which I assume this falls into.

I don't wonder. The -only- way to really try to protect that data is to not share or make it available - even to companies that allegedly have good intentions.

You’re not crazy, all those risks exist. Right now, we are weighing the good of getting this content off the internet versus the theoretical bad our own system being misused.

How do you verify that the image being uploaded is indeed the user? Otherwise anyone can upload a photo of anyone else to see if they find something, which means you’d be taking the damage of revenge porn to a whole new level by creating an easily searchable index.

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