has expanded its non-public info coverage to incorporate media, banning customers from sharing pictures or movies of a personal particular person with out their permission. The firm notes that tweeting such pictures can violate somebody’s privateness and probably result in hurt towards them.

The Twitter Safety workforce that though anybody might be impacted by non-public media being shared, it “can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents and members of minority communities.” If somebody experiences a photograph or video that violates the coverage, Twitter will take away the media and take motion based mostly on its enforcement choices. Those embody downranking the visibility of the tweet in replies and search outcomes or telling the one who posted it to delete the tweet. Twitter additionally has the precise to completely droop customers who violate the coverage.

There are some exceptions to the coverage. It does not cowl non-public media of public figures or others if a photograph or video, and the textual content within the tweet, “are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse.” In different phrases, if it is newsworthy, Twitter might permit the media to stay on the platform. The firm will think about elements equivalent to whether or not the pictures can be found elsewhere, equivalent to on TV or in newspapers.

That stated, if the objective of sharing non-public pictures or movies of public figures “or individuals who are part of public conversations is to harass, intimidate or use fear to silence them,” Twitter would possibly take away the media. The abusive behavior and insurance policies nonetheless apply.

Twitter has lengthy banned about different individuals, equivalent to addresses, cellphone numbers, ID or monetary info (in different phrases, ). It additionally does not permit customers to intimidate others by threatening to launch such particulars. The firm says it’s going to begin implementing the non-public picture rule in the present day and that the brand new measure is a part of its work to convey its security insurance policies according to human rights requirements.