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‘Sickening rise’ in AI-generated child sex abuse images ‘inciting paedophiles to commit more crimes’ | Science & Tech News
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Home Secretary Suella Braverman has pledged to work with the US to tackle the “sickening” rise of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Investigations by an online safety group have found “astoundingly realistic” AI-made images of children, including babies and toddlers, being abused. The Internet Watch Foundation has also discovered an online…
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Online child grooming crimes hit record high – as figures reveal social apps where it’s happening | Science & Tech News
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The number of online grooming crimes against children hit a record high in the last year, police figures show. A total of 6,350 crimes related to sexual communication with a child were recorded in the year to March 2023, a rise of 82% since the offence was first defined in 2017. In all, around 34,000…
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Discord boss ‘horrified’ by reports of child abuse and abduction on platform | Science & Tech News
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Child exploitation taking place on popular chat platform Discord is “horrifying”, the company’s chief executive has said. Jason Citron said any cases of child sexual abuse material, grooming, or abduction linked to the service, which he founded back in 2015, would be taken “very seriously”. “As a parent, it’s horrifying,” he told Bloomberg’s Tech Summit…
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Cost of living crisis raises fears of surge in online child exploitation this summer | UK News
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Young people could be left at greater risk from online exploitation as families struggle to afford activities such as days out and holiday clubs this summer, children’s charities have warned. The NSPCC said the cost of living crisis must not be allowed to “fuel another surge in abuse” as happened during the COVID pandemic, while…
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Most extreme online child sexual abuse material doubles in two years – with babies and toddlers among the victims | UK News
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Newborn babies and toddlers are among the victims of the most severe online sexual abuse, with the amount of the most extreme material doubling in the last two years, a new report has found. In 2022, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) took action to remove or block 51,369 web pages containing Category A child sexual…
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Paedophiles are starting to use virtual reality headsets to view child abuse images, data shows | UK News
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Paedophiles are starting to use virtual reality headsets to view child abuse images, according to police data. Use of this technology was recorded in eight cases in 2021/22 – the first time this technology has been specifically mentioned in crime reports. During that period, police recorded 30,925 offences involving obscene images of children – the…
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‘Evil’ child rapist jailed for life after being unmasked by technology that unpixelated image of him | UK News
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A prolific and “evil” child rapist has been jailed for life after he was unmasked by technology that unpixelated an image of his face discovered in photos he took of himself abusing his victims. Martyn Armstrong, from Pembrokeshire, documented himself committing “depraved” acts against three children, including a victim aged one, and posted the pictures…
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Online Safety Bill: Record amount of online child abuse blocked as legislation remains in limbo | Science & Tech News
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An unprecedented quantity of online child sexual abuse content is being blocked by tech companies while legislation aimed at tackling such material remains undelivered, the government has been warned. There are currently 24,649 web addresses containing such images of youngsters, sometimes even babies, on the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)’s list of blocked pages – a…
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GCHQ experts set out how to tackle online child sexual abuse despite end-to-end encryption | Science & Tech News
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Two senior technical directors at GCHQ, the UK’s cyber intelligence agency, have published a new paper analysing how technology companies could protect children from sexual abuse online. The impact of child sexual abuse can last a lifetime even if the abuse takes place online. Research by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found survivors…