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It's 2024, and laws have not caught up to technology. It now takes less than 60 seconds to make AI porn, and new cases have arisen on the nudification of middle and high school girls. Go to https://lnkd.in/e75Ry6P4 to see the companies on the recently updated National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s Dirty Dozen List. Will you stand against sexual exploitation? Share this and help advocate for companies to take common sense safety measures.

The 2024 Dirty Dozen List is revealed and now it's time to take action! We ask you to join us in calling out 12 mainstream corporations, institutions, and other entities that facilitate and profit from sexual exploitation. Learn more about the targets and take action here: https://lnkd.in/eXdZ7MnJ #endexploitation #takeaction #bigtech

This list highlights the top 12 internet companies whose platforms allow or promote the sexual exploitation of children without repercussions. Be aware….. and protect your children.

Digital tools now more than ever play a role in exacerbating violence occurring offline. A perfect example is technology facilitated gender based violence (TFGBV). TFGBV is an act of violence perpetrated by an individual that is committed,assisted,aggravated and amplified in part or fully by the use of information and communication technologies or digital media, against a person on the basis of their gender. TFGBV takes many forms including sextortion( blackmail by threatening to publish sexual information,photos or videos) image-based abuse ( sharing intimate photos without consent). Cyberbullying, cyberstalking, hate speech and many more. Report such incidences and do not be a bystander. #16DaysOfActivism2024 #NoExcuse

Congratulations on the success of your groundbreaking work involved in developing and evaluating the reThink Chatbot, which demonstrated a reduction in searches for child sexual abuse material on Pornhub UK. Donald Findlater Joel Scanlan Dan S. The reThinkChatbot informs users about illegal behaviour and guides them to the Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Stop It Now service, which is a child protection charity working to stop child sexual abuse before it happens. This initiative has the potential to significantly impact the cycle of online child sexual exploitation and abuse - Displayed 2.8 million times (March 2022 - August 2023), the Chatbot generated 1,656 requests for information and Stop It Now services, with 490 website click-throughs. The report (https://lnkd.in/dWxWQjCK) should prompt regulators, like Ofcom and @European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) and National Association of Attorneys General overseeing social media platforms to ensure that platforms take steps to combat access to illegal and harmful content. Of particular relevance are platforms that enable discovery of illegal and harmful content using #hashtags search service. Consider requiring companies to re-evaluate their approaches and implement more responsible measures. These measures could include: - Stricter safeguards on recommendation algorithms that connect adult strangers with a sexual interest in children to children. - Parental verification checks to ensure 'family safety tools' aren't misused by adults with a sexual interest in children to connect with and coerce children into producing CSA - Deploying reThink Chatbot technology so that when adults search for #hashtags indicative of a desire for child sexual abuse material, they are redirected to support Social media and adult content platforms must take more significant action to break the cycle of abuse and the reThink chatbot is an important step on that journey. #CombatAbuse #OnlineSafety #ChildSafetyOnline @Carlos Aguilar Ted Cruz #ProtectingChildrenOnline #DigitalLiteracy#CybersecurityAwareness @Ofcom @AnnableLyons #globalonlinesafetyregulatorsnetwork #OnlineSafetyAct #UKOnlineSafetyAct #KOSA #TechRegulation #ChildRights #ChildrensRights #TechForGood #EthicalTech #EndChildAbuse #AIforGood #TechAgainstAbuse #StopOnlineAbuse #ContentModeration #CyberSafety #Corporate&SocialResponsibility Gill Whitehead, Ofcom, UK Benoît LOUTREL, Arcom, France Tajeshwari Devi, Mashilo Boloka,  Julie Inman - Grant, Niamh Hodnett,  Soyoung Chloe Park,

The collaborative efforts of the University of Tasmania, Lucy Faithfull Foundation, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and Aylo demonstrate the value of cooperation for achieving positive outcomes. Through this endeavor, there emerges a promising opportunity to proactively prevent potential offenders from committing harmful acts online, thereby significantly mitigating online harm. #onlineharm #preventoffending #crimestoppersinternational

ICYMI: 5 things to know about sexual exploitation in the US, worldwide: Anti-sexual exploitation advocates are warning that technology is enabling sexual abuse through sites like OnlyFans and innovations like deep fake images. Here are five things to know about the prevalence of sexual exploitation in the United States and worldwide. #NCOSE #OnlyFans #Pornhub #deepfakeimages #Section230

November 19 is International Men's Day, a day that doesn't feature highly in the calendar, but nonetheless it's a day worth marking. The theme for 2024 is "Positive Male Role Models." As an expert in #modernslavery and #humantrafficking and someone who completed their research on developing a roll for men in preventing human trafficking into the sex industry, I'm acutely aware of the great need for men to be active in addressing this issue at all levels of business, government, research and not-for-profit, and in providing excellent role models for survivors and people at risk. As a man, I'm acutely aware of the role of men in creating a world where exploitation flourishes, but I'm also aware that men are integral in the fight to #endslavery.

If you read one thing today, let it be this critical The New York Times article by the indomitable Nick Kristof on the massively grown from of sexual violence online known as deepfake harms. Women and girls are tired of being the collateral damage of AI going unchecked by those who create and profit off it. “We are being slut-shamed and the perpetrators are completely running free,” she told me. “It doesn’t make sense.” That quote is from Breeze Liu of Alecto AI , a survivor-created app that helps survivors remove nonconsensual intimate images and take their lives back. Breeze, along with Noelle Martin - a human rights lawyer and survivor of deepfake harms - along with Dorota Mani and her daughter are all featured here and I'm honored to stand with them in my role as the Director of the Reclaim Coalition powered by Panorama Global. Breeze, myself and others have spent the last months in deep conversations with Nick and there are some truths that are important to share: 1. This does NOT have to be this way: it's about Section 230 - a tiny law that has been used by many major tech companies like Google to hide. Look, it seems Yahoo has some ideas to prevent the surfacing of the tools to create the deepfake sexual violence that so many women and girls are experiencing - maybe Google can google them to find out? 2. Survivors can not be left to clean up their own crime scenes. We need big tech - and all tech - to partner with survivors and allies to robustly ensure these images are removed - this is because, as I stated in the article - there are survivors who die from this and we need solutions from all sides - tech, helplines and hotlines (hi Sophie Mortimer), and so much more! 3. There are tools out there - survivor created - where you can find help! Download Alecto AI app and share! Nia Batts Sophie Maddocks Nadia Lee Sigurdur Ragnarsson Jean-Christophe (J-C) Le Toquin Caroline Humer Andrea Ran CSPO® Nkechi "Payton" Iheme Mashilo Boloka Norma Buster Carrie Goldberg Elizabeth Woodward Sophie Tara Compton Sarah Vaill Angelica Serna Bradley Myles Karen Wawrzaszek CFP®, CEPA, CTFA Soyoung Chloe Park Adam R. Dodge Eric Cohen Dr Silvia Semenzin Laila Mickelwait #deepfakes #ai #ibsv #survivors #believesurvivors

In 2023, the CyberTipline received 36.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation online. The majority of those reports, which came in at a staggering 35,925,098, were apparent child sexual abuse material (CSAM). There was also a new alarming trend with 4,700 reports involving generative AI. This is when computer-generated images of children are created depicting the child engaging in graphic sexual acts. This can also include deepfakes that alter images or videos of real children to be sexually explicit. The best thing you can do to protect your children is to not post them online at all, and if you do, make sure your social media profiles are set to private. If you are going to post images of your children, I recommend you be vigilant of who you accept as a friend on social media. The best way to share photos of your children with your close friends and family who may be far away is to create a shared photo album. This can be done on iPhones and other apps that keep your images private rather than posting them on an open platform such as Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok. Make sure to keep your circle tight to protect your children.