Online Safety
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UK Crime
Met reports more than twofold increase in image-based sexual abuse complaints over five years
Reports of image-based sexual abuse and explicit deepfakes to the Metropolitan Police have more than doubled in five years, new…
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UK Health
Big tech’s classroom devices now under scrutiny, argues Guardian editorial
England is set to ban mobile phones in schools after a cross-party revolt in Parliament forced the government to abandon…
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UK Crime
AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reports leap 154% in a year
Reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery have surged by more than 150 per cent in a single year, according…
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UK Crime
Twofold rise in child sexual abuse websites fuels criminal gang profits, experts say
The number of commercial child sexual abuse websites has more than doubled in a single year, according to data from…
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UK Crime
Teenage slang for ‘Fullz’ and ‘addys’ reveals criminal fraud lexicon
In the shadowy world of online fraud, criminals don’t talk about bank cards or addresses. They discuss “squares” and “addys”.…
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UK Politics
Labour MP faces backlash for supporting adult site over child safety failures
A Labour MP campaigning for a national “summer of sex” has publicly endorsed an adult website now facing questions over…
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World News
Roblox agrees $12m Nevada settlement over child safety rules
Online gaming giant Roblox will pay more than $12 million to the state of Nevada and implement a sweeping suite…
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World News
Teen Noah, 15, mounts court challenge to Australia’s under-16 social media prohibition
Four months after Australia implemented a ban on under-16s holding social media accounts, the majority of teenagers it was designed…
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UK Crime
Facebook engineer’s programme gave access to 30,000 private UK user images
A former Meta engineer is facing criminal investigation after allegedly using a custom-built programme to download around 30,000 private images…
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UK Crime
London parents defrauded of £2,000 over children’s TV streaming on Amazon Fire sticks
Parents across London have lost an average of nearly £2,000 each to financial fraud after using illicit streaming devices, such…
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