Leaked research reveals Facebook’s awareness of potential harm to teens using Instagram, children’s gaming platform targeted by users who encourage sexualised behaviour, a step forward in Snapchat safety and a warning about vaccine fraud are highlighted in our newsletter this week.
Funding to encourage innovative solutions to detect online child sex abuse without compromising privacy and E2E encryption, increase in peer-on-peer abuse and a partnership to provide age-rated content on Netflix are our focus this week.
Apple’s plans to introduce tools to reduce child exploitation are temporarily put on hold but the impact of the Age-Appropriate Design Code brings welcome improvements to a range of social media platforms both in the UK and abroad.
Online grooming crimes continue to increase, lockdown led to increased screen time for children and adults, Apple App store protections for children put in doubt and we welcome the implementation of the ICO’s Children’s Code this week.
This week we report on the potential for sexual consent by app, the introduction of scans of iOS devices to detect child abuse images, calls for a ban on “nudifying” software and concerns about a new disappearing messages feature on WhatsApp.
IWF warning of online sexual abuse of teens, changes to protect teens from inappropriate social media advertising, more scrutiny of the Online Safety Bill and an online travel rip-off are all in our newsletter this week.
New research into how design choices in digital platforms put children at risk and a new government strategy to address violence against women and girls, including online, are reported on in our newsletter this week alongside proposed protections for online shoppers.
Social Media companies are under fire again following racist abuse against England’s football players, the Government has released its new online media literacy strategy to improve recognition of fake news and we report on a growth in stalking during the pandemic.
We report on the latest update to KCSIE, the launch of a new resource for vulnerable children and their carers, efforts to reduce online radicalisation of children, new EU powers to detect signs of child abuse online and more.