Twitter has announced an expansion of its personal information policy, which covers the sharing of private media, such as photos and videos, without the permission of the individuals who are featured in them, as the social media platform is intended to protect the user’s privacy. To improve privacy and security.
Sharing personal media, such as pictures or videos, can potentially infringe on an individual’s privacy, and may cause emotional or physical harm,” Twitter shared in a blog post.
Abuse of private media can affect everyone, but it can have an adverse effect on women, activists, dissidents and members of minority communities. When we receive reports that a Tweet contains unauthorised private media, we will now take action to the extent of our enforcement options.
Under its current policy, publishing other people’s personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses and IDs, or threatening to expose someone else’s personal information and encouraging others to do so is not already allowed on Twitter. Is.
The company also took the opportunity to outline the actions taken by individuals notifying them of permission to share their personal images or videos.
“We will remove it,” the company wrote.
It is noted, however, that the policy will not apply to media featuring public figures or individuals, when the media and the accompanying Tweet text is shared in the public interest or adds value to public discourse.
The company said that in cases where account holders share media of individuals to help someone in a crisis situation, it will “try” to assess the context in which the content is shared.
In such cases, we may allow images or videos to remain on the Service, Twitter said.
For example, we will consider whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites), or if a particular image and accompanying Tweet text adds value to public discourse, being shared in the public interest, or relevant to the community.
The expansion of the policy comes a day after Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced his resignation, in a letter to employees, that CTO Parag Agarwal would take over.
Twitter is introducing a variety of features to reduce harmful content on its platform. In September, it introduced a feature called Safety Mode, which temporarily blocks certain accounts for seven days if they are found insulting users or repeatedly sending hateful comments.
Earlier, Twitter said it was conducting a test that would allow users in the United States, South Korea and Australia to report misleading tweets.
