At the beginning of August, Point de Contact told Wired that only two pictures were left on four different Microsoft servers. “We regret that this issue took almost ten months of communication between the victim, Microsoft and us as an NGO to be resolved,” the NGO said in ‘Ne post at the time.

Gregoire, head of Microsoft Digital Safety, says Liu’s situation has urged her team to try to improve reporting processes and relationships with victims. Point de Contact initially marked links on which the company did not control, according to Gregoire. She did not want to elaborate on the circumstances. Dirani says this explanation was never communicated to him, and it is unclear why the links were not ‘feasible’.

Only after Powell Thomas brought about Liu’s case in the corner did Microsoft obtain the URLs on which it could act. “We are grateful to be completely honest, with the spontaneous connection at TrustCon,” says Gregoire. But it should not be necessary again: Point de Contact now has a more direct way to stay in touch, she says.

Other groups for victims say their relationships with technical giants remain challenging. Last year, a wired investigation revealed that managers at Google rejected numerous ideas raised by outside staff and advocates aiming to proactively counteract access to problematic visuals in search results. Some survivors have found that the fastest way to remove content by submitting copyright claims, a tactic that, according to the online security industry, is insufficient.

The lack of consistency in policies and processes under technical enterprises contributes to delays in the security of decline, according to Emma Pickering, the head of technology has facilitated abuse at Refuge, the largest domestic abuse organization in the UK. “They just respond just as they choose – and the reaction is usually incredibly weak,” she says. (Google introduced new policies in July 2024 to accelerate the removal.)

Pickering claims that Microsoft was particularly difficult. “Me has recently been told that if I want to deal with them, we must provide evidence that we use their platform and promote us,” she says, adding that retreat is trying to deal with so many technical platforms.

Microsoft’s Gregoire says she will investigate these problems and are open to dialogue. The company hopes to take the need for decrease, partly by offenders. This past December, Microsoft sued a group of ten unknown individuals who allegedly bypassed precautions on Azure and used an AI instrument to generate offensive images, including some Gregoire described as sexually harmful. “We don’t want our services to be abused,” she says.

For Liu, the challenges did not end. Videos and images depicting her naked remain available on at least one self -style “free porn” website, according to Wired Revised Links. She also had to throw her savings in the development of Alecto Ai because investor support was defective. Some investors allegedly told her not to use her own experience at her pitch. Liu says that when she is a male female pair that is considering investing, in the laughter of the idea to build a business around using AI to detect online imaging. Even to respond that she almost killed herself after being victimized, little did to swing them, Liu says.

In December 2024, more than four and a half years since her nightmare, Liu found a glitter of hope. A proposal for which she advocated in the US Congress to require websites to remove unwanted explicit images within 48 hours, almost ended on the then President Joe Biden’s desk. In the end, it was brought to the scoreboard, but real progress has never felt so close. Liu and a two -party group of more than 20 lawmakers did not give up; In January, they reinstated the proposal, threatening possible fines of up to $ 50,000 per offense. Despite objections of rights groups concerned about over-censorship, the bill approved the Senate last week. Even Microsoft came behind it.

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