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.
    • omcgo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      04·
      2 months ago

      We have to look at hardware-level solutions like VOOP, which can block the sending of nudes (for example) entirely.

      • Guilvareux@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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 kids devices, 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.