Tech giants pool efforts to fight online child sex abuse
Big tech companies, including Facebook-owner Meta and Google, said Tuesday they would team up in a new program to fight online child sexual abuse or exploitation.
Nov 7, 2023
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Australia has fined X Australia over child sex abuse material concerns. How severe is the issue? What happens now?
Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Grant, has found X (formerly Twitter) guilty of serious non-compliance to a transparency notice on child sex abuse material. The commissioner has issued X with an infringement notice ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Australian safety watchdog fines social platform X $385,000 for not tackling child abuse content
Australia's online safety watchdog said on Monday it had fined X—the social media platform formerly known as Twitter—610,500 Australian dollars ($385,000) for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation ...
Oct 16, 2023
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New resource for domestic abuse survivors combines AI, cybersecurity and psychology
Georgia Tech researchers are working to create a new software tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to address the under-researched area of digital security and domestic abuse.
Sep 28, 2023
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UK reassures big tech over new encryption rules
The British government on Wednesday gave guarantees to instant messaging platforms over concerns that they could be forced to monitor encrypted messages for harmful content.
Sep 6, 2023
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X removing the 'block' feature: Why businesses are better than people at moderating negative comments
In a recent post, the owner of X, (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, announced his plans for the social media platform to remove its blocking feature, except for in direct messages.
Aug 30, 2023
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In age of AI, women battle rise of deepfake porn
Photo apps digitally undressing women, sexualized text-to-image prompts creating "AI girls" and manipulated images fueling "sextortion" rackets—a boom in deepfake porn is outpacing US and European efforts to regulate the ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Dutch semiconductor machine export restrictions to come into force in September
Dutch companies that produce machines that make advanced semiconductor processor chips will be required to have export licenses before they can sell them overseas starting in September, the government announced Friday.
Jun 30, 2023
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Instagram 'most important platform' for child sex abuse networks: report
Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing child sexual abuse, according to a report by Stanford University and the Wall Street Journal.
Jun 8, 2023
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New Israeli spyware targets journalists, politicians: watchdog
New Israeli-made spyware resembling the notorious Pegasus program has been used to target journalists and opposition politicians in several countries, a Canadian watchdog said Tuesday.
Apr 11, 2023
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