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The dark side of back-to-school: Why ExpressVPN urges parents to rethink their online privacy habits

ExpressVPN and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) are warning parents about the dangers of posting back-to-school photos online, highlighting how easily innocent images can be scraped and manipulated by AI.

TechRadar

UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears

Exclusive: National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material online

The Guardian - UK

UK schools should remove pupils’ online photos as AI blackmail threat grows, say experts

Criminals are manipulating pictures found on school websites and social media to create sexually explicit images

The Guardian - UK

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Reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery soar by 154% in a year

Experts said a ‘frightening’ advancement of technology has seen AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery surge

The Independent UK

Criminal gangs profiting as child sexual abuse websites double, experts say

Analyst who worked on Internet Watch Foundation report says content exists ‘across all social media platforms’ and is ‘very easy’ to find

The Guardian - UK

'It doesn’t have to be all or nothing' — ExpressVPN launches privacy-first tool to combat CSAM

ExpressVPN has partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to develop OpenBoundary, a new tool launched to block access to illegal content without compromising encryption.

TechRadar

Grok AI Deepfake Crisis Gets Ugly: 'Stranger Things' Child Star Become the Next Target

Grok AI faces renewed backlash after users generated sexualised deepfakes of 'Stranger Things' child actor Nell Fisher, escalating concerns over AI safety and child protection.

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New crackdown on AI images of child sexual abuse as reports double in a year

The Internet Watch Foundation said there has been a surge in AI-generated abuse content depicting infants

The Independent UK

Tech companies and UK child safety agencies to test AI tools’ ability to create abuse images

New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of material

The Guardian - UK

Charity warns AI-generated child sex abuse videos ‘now as lifelike as real footage’

New data from the Internet Watch Foundation revealed 1,286 AI-generated videos were discovered in the first half of this year

The Independent UK

Warnings issued as rising amount of child sexual abuse material hosted on websites in EU countries

A rise in child sex abuse material has been linked to websites hosted in EU countries, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

Euronews

‘Record levels of web pages hosting child sex abuse imagery discovered in 2024’

The Internet Watch Foundation has announced it will offer a new safety tool to smaller sites for free to help fight online harms.

Evening Standard

Our research on dark web forums reveals the growing threat of AI-generated child abuse images

The UK aims to be the first country in the world to create new offences related to AI-generated sexual abuse. New laws will make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM), punishable by up to five years in prison. The…

The Conversation

Creators of AI child sex abuse images face up to five years in prison under crackdown

UK to be first country to make owning artificial intelligence tools designed to make images of child sexual abuse illegal

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Evening Standard

Online safety group urges Starmer to intervene over child sexual abuse imagery

The Internet Watch Foundation has called on the Prime Minister to step in over what it says are gaps in the Online Safety Act.

Evening Standard

Telegram to work with internet watchdog on child sexual abuse material crackdown

The messaging platform will use tools from the Internet Watch Foundation to help detect and remove abuse material.

The Guardian - UK

AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reaching ‘tipping point’, says watchdog

Internet Watch Foundation says illegal AI-made content is becoming more prevalent on open web with high level of sophistication

The Guardian - UK

How can children be protected from online sextortion fraud?

Criminals are tricking young people into sending intimate images, then demanding money. Experts explain how to deal with these attacks

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The Guardian - UK

National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over rise in sextortion cases

Exclusive: Agency says foreign gangs not safe from prosecution in UK and plans new recording label to track extent of the crime

The Guardian - US

Child predators are using AI to create sexual images of their favorite ‘stars’: ‘My body will never be mine again’

Safety groups say they’re increasingly finding chats about creating images based on past child sexual abuse material

The Guardian - UK

‘My 17-year-old son was arrested for sharing child abuse images – he said it was a relief’

A mother describes how her autistic son became one of thousands of under-18s caught viewing or sharing indecent images of children

International Business Times UK

Number of Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) Increases By 66%

The Internet Watch Foundation reported the identification of self-generated child sexual abuse material involving children under 10 on over 100,000 web pages.

The Guardian - UK

Over 90% of child sexual abuse imagery is self-generated, data shows

Volume of material children are coerced or groomed into creating prompts renewed attack on end-to-end encryption

The Guardian - UK

‘Fear, shame, hopelessness’: how young men are blackmailed online

‘Sextortion’ of young people in Scotland has risen sharply and boys and young men are most at risk

International Business Times UK

Concerns Rise as UK School Pupils Exploit AI to Create Indecent Imagery of Fellow Students

Child protection advocates have called for urgent action to address the misuse of AI and the restriction of access to such tools among school-age children.

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