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06-23-2017, 05:11 AM
Facebook has new safeguards for profile pictures, but it's just a first step
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is revamping profile pictures to make them safer, starting with India.
The company has launched two new features in India to reduce misuse of profile photos, an**unced (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/giving-people-more-control-over-their-facebook-profile-picture/) on Thursday. Though the issue is **t limited to that region of the world, the problem is prevalent in the country, according to Facebook.
SEE ALSO: Facebook is testing a feature that alerts you if someone is impersonating your account (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/facebook-impersonation-alert/)
The features include "profile picture guard" and "profile picture design." The guard takes away some of the obvious ways of copying the photo; for example, people will ** longer be able to download, share or send the profile picture as a message on Facebook. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/facebook-profile-picture-guard/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is revamping profile pictures to make them safer, starting with India.
The company has launched two new features in India to reduce misuse of profile photos, an**unced (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/giving-people-more-control-over-their-facebook-profile-picture/) on Thursday. Though the issue is **t limited to that region of the world, the problem is prevalent in the country, according to Facebook.
SEE ALSO: Facebook is testing a feature that alerts you if someone is impersonating your account (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/facebook-impersonation-alert/)
The features include "profile picture guard" and "profile picture design." The guard takes away some of the obvious ways of copying the photo; for example, people will ** longer be able to download, share or send the profile picture as a message on Facebook. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/facebook-profile-picture-guard/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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