Police efforts to sort through online child sexual exploitation material are being hampered by the rise in AI-generated imagery. Here’s how they’re working to combat the problem.
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It is a criminal offence to take or possess an indecent image of someone under the age of 18.
An expert on adolescent sexuality weighs in on how technology has changed the amount and type of pornography that teens can consume – and what that means when it happens at school.
There is a dire need to prevent child sexual abuse in Canada. It is critical to intervene early, and provide those at risk for offending with support through an anonymous helpline, as well as therapy.
One study found 80% of darknet traffic on Tor went to sites hosting unmoderated porn and child sex abuse material.
Describing non-consensual acts as pornography minimises the importance of consent.
The tech giants are consistently failing to protect children.
The case for all things Tor.
It’s increasingly difficult to tell virtually-created images from those of real children.
All sexual offenders should be investigated and prosecuted equally.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield told Q&A that the Children’s eSafety Commissioner has investigated 11,000 cases of cyberbullying and can fine social media firms $17,000 a day. Is that true?
Data from Pornhub shows the word ‘teen’ is among the most searched for terms – which raises a difficult question.
The continued use by politicians and the media of the term “child pornography” minimises the offence’s seriousness. They are online child abuse material.
A cartoon can land you in court, as happened to a man recently convicted of possessing non-photographic images – cartoons, drawings – of a sexual nature featuring children. Clearly child pornography, more…
Fresh from its success calling on search engines to block access to child porn, the UK government is turning its attention to terrorism. Ministers are poised to call on internet service providers to block…
Google and Microsoft have agreed to install filters on their search engines to prevent them being used to search for child abuse images. Some queries on Google and Bing will be blocked, while others will…
The arrest of 348 suspected members of a child pornography network has garnered headlines around the world, especially in countries where mass arrests have been made. In Australia, the Federal Police have…
Sexting is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Multiple incidents of teenagers circulating explicit images of other teenagers are under investigation in Victoria. It has emerged that Queensland…
Can we really separate a “nice” internet from a “bad” internet? That appears to be the thinking behind David Cameron’s statements foreshadowing the introduction of “porn filters” and search engine roadblocks…
I was absolutely mortified, horrified. Everyone had seen them … people would stop me in the street and recognise me. - “Helen”, aged 14 years “Sexting” (also known as “selfies” or “noodz”) refers to the…
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer, Justice and Legal Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Western Sydney University
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Research Analyst, Violent and Serious Crime Monitoring team, Australian Institute of Criminology
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Senior Lecturer, Criminal Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University
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Laboratory Coordinator at the Australian National University's Cybercrime Observatory, Australian National University
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Clinical Forensic Psychologist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ontario Tech University
