The annual Dirty Dozen List, published by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), aims to hold twelve organizations accountable for "facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation." This list...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is causing a new problem: deepfakes. Deepfakes, according to the Department of Homeland Security, "utilize a form of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to create believable, realistic videos,...
Roblox is an online gaming platform for many user-created games. According to their website, "Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine." There are gaming...
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) recently published an article highlighting two main tactics to help prevent online and offline child sexual abuse: Preventing predator's online access to children Preventing pornography...
Minors, especially young males, have recently been affected by a particular type of extortion called sextortion. According to an article from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), "Sexual extortion [sextortion] is the use of sexual...
The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, also known as CDA 230, is a law that is supposed to protect online speech. While it does this in some ways, vague language in the law has been the cause of confusion and misinterpretation. Part of CDA 230...
Last week, the Canadian Committee on Information, Privacy, and Ethics issued a report calling for online pornographers to be held liable for breaking criminal laws in Canada. The government of Canada is finally planning to hold MindGeek,...
OnlyFans allows vulnerable people to sell their own bodies for profit and makes money off of their exploitation. Recently, there have been increased reports of minors creating and selling sexually explicit content of themselves on OnlyFans. The...
A member of our team at Abstinence Clearinghouse recently heard a harrowing story of a teacher grooming a high school student for sexual abuse during this pandemic. It all started because of the cover that distance learning over Zoom and Google...
California Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed a law that gives judges discretion over whether to add certain people convicted of statutory rape to the sex offender registry. This change is very controversial as it loosens the rules that...
