Idea to watermark nude photos shared on Telegram wins award at hackathon


From left:Celeste Ng, Liew Qian Hui, Lee Xin Yi and Exceline Angelia Darmawan won the most innovative award for their proposal at the hackathon. - GO WOMEN

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A team of four Singapore Management University (SMU) students proposed that a feature be set up on messaging app Telegram to allow women to watermark their nude photos with the recipient's name, so as to deter mass forwarding of the photos.

They also suggested an anti-forwarding technology to be implemented on the app to prevent immediate leaks of intimate or nude photos.

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