Meta has announced that it is expanding’Facebook Protect’, its protection program aimed at people most likely to be targeted by malicious hackers, including India – Covering human rights defenders, journalists and government officials. ‘Facebook Protect’ helps these people adopt robust account security protections like two-factor authentication, and monitor for potential hacking threats. The company first tested ‘Facebook Protect’ in 2018 and expanded it ahead of the 2020 US elections.
“We began our global expansion in September of this year. Since then, more than 1.5 million accounts have enabled Facebook Protect, and about 950K of those accounts are newly enrolled in two-factor authentication,” said head of security policy at Meta Nathaniel Gleicher said in a statement late Thursday. “We are on track to expand the program to more than 50 countries, including the United States, India and Portugal, by the end of the year,” he informed.
No action is required until you receive notification on Facebook that you are eligible to enroll. “With Facebook Protect, we worked to make enrollment and the use of two-factor authentication as frictionless as possible for these groups of people by providing a better user experience and support,” the company said.
META also announced that, with over 50 non-governmental organization partners worldwide, it will launch the UK revenge porn helpline StopNCII.org to help prevent the non-consensual sharing of intimate images (NCII) on the Internet. is supporting.
StopNCII.org uses technology that hashes images and videos directly on a person’s device, so those images or videos never have to be relinquished to an individual.
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