Child sexual extortion cases in the UK soar
www.iwf.org.uk
Charities warn threat of sexual extortion (or sextortion) against children ‘not diminishing’ as new data show sextortion cases soar 72% in a year.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37122335

  • Sexual extortion, or ‘sextortion’ scams against children and young people on the rise, with ‘hideous and callous cruelty’ used to blackmail victims.
  • Boys still at particular risk as numbers surge – making up 97% of confirmed sextortion cases seen by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
  • UK’s Report Remove service, run jointly by Childline and the IWF, sees significant rise in children self-reporting nude or sexual imagery which may have got out of control online.
  • Guilvareux@feddit.ukEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’ll go against the grain on this one, I actually think something akin to this is the right approach.

    “Protect the children” will have to go somewhere, it’s not going to just die. Getting a device with locked down access is better than the ridiculous changes to the internet that are being planned.

    This might not be the right implementation, but I think the idea is along the right lines… or at least, the least worst option.