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Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down
Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.
Detectives obtained search warrants for some websites but couldn’t identify the people responsible for uploading the content “based on the limited information retained by the internet sites and the overseas nature of the accounts involved,” department spokesperson Byron White says. “You don’t want to see that of yourself.” That changed after Liu left her VC job in 2022 and decided to fully pursue her own startup, Alecto AI, which aims to develop face-recognition tools to help people find and remove nonconsensual images that have been shared on digital platforms. However, in late July last year, Powell and Liu concocted a plan to speak with Thomas at a San Francisco hotel hosting TrustCon, a conference for people working on online trust and safety issues.
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