Facebook announced that it is piloting new settings that will give women in India more control over who can download and share their profile pictures.
“In India, we’ve heard that people want more control over their profile pictures, and we’ve been working over the past year to understand how we can help,” said Aarati Soman, Product Manager at Facebook.
Facebook is also exploring ways that people could more easily add designs to profile pictures, which Facebook research has shown helpful in deterring misuse.
Based on the experience in India, the social media giant hopes to expand the feature to other countries soon.
“In our research in India, we have heard that some women choose not to share profile pictures that include their faces anywhere on the internet because they are concerned about what may happen to their photos,” she added.
These tools, developed in partnership with Indian safety organisations like Centre for Social Research, and Youth Ki Awaaz.
Other people will no longer be able to download, share or send one’s profile picture in a message on Facebook. People who an individual are not friends with on Facebook won’t be able to tag anyone, including themselves, in the profile picture
If possible Facebook would prevent others from taking a screenshot of a profile picture on Facebook – the feature currently available only on Android devices.
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