Children and young people spend a lot of time online, and many of them play online games every day. These online environments can also expose them to risks such as cyberbullying, exploitation, recruitment, radicalisation or grooming. The EU-funded project The Gaming Police brings Finnish police into digital spaces, reaching vulnerable young people through the gaming...Read More
BRAINERD — The first-ever CC’s Sack Attack Bags Tournament raised preliminary gross proceeds of more than $6,000 to support Family Fun Day and the Alex & Brandon Child Safety Center, a program of Relationship Safety Alliance. Held July 25 at CC’s Bar in Brainerd, the event brought together 20 teams, volunteers, local businesses, donors and...Read More
(Bloomberg) — A key Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a package of bills aimed at improving children’s safety online, teeing up a showdown with the House over whether to hold Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harms done to minors on their social media platforms. Most Read from Bloomberg The bills passed...Read More
Meta’s ad platform did something it has promised, repeatedly, never to allow again. According to a new investigation from Wired, Meta ran dozens of paid ads over the past nine months containing explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, some of which stayed live even after the company was directly confronted about them. If this feels...Read More
Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets users in India add their date of birth, an update to the massively popular messaging service in its largest market. Screenshots circulating online in recent days show a box that appeared atop the app for some users saying, “Add your date of birth. Upcoming...Read More
A former senior executive at PGIM and longtime real estate executive was arrested as part of a sting operation involving minors in San Francisco. Photo credit: Unsplash/Daniel von Appen Reuben Teague, 50, was one of five men arrested in the undercover operation conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with other U.S. law...Read More
Children and families in Cleburne County will soon have access to specialized child advocacy services without traveling outside their community. The Child Safety Center has announced plans to open a new office inside Heber Springs City Hall this fall. The expansion is designed to improve access to trauma-informed care while strengthening the local response to...Read More
Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe has been slammed for maintaining a close relationship with Elon Musk while holding shares in an online child safety business. Far-right tech billionaire Musk, the richest person in the world, owns the social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), which has been used to produce sexually explicit images of...Read More
Weeks after NDTV’s investigation exposed sexually suggestive videos involving minors, AI-generated exploitative content, coded hashtags and captions, and networks directing users to Telegram channels, Meta has acknowledged limitations, saying that its current automated enforcement systems ‘often rely on straightforward patterns’ and ‘aren’t as good at capturing nuance’. The tech giant disclosed that it is developing...Read More
A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children. Meta was previously ordered to pay $375 million in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the company liable for endangering children by...Read More
