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Study shows promise in protecting students from online harm
A pilot with university students found most had experienced online harm in the past year. The group behind the study says its workshop is linked to less shame and more help-seeking.
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Platforms under pressure in UK over intimate images
Ofcom has opened an enforcement programme and set a 30 September deadline. Firms that fail can be fined up to a tenth of their global revenue.
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French helpline reports women filmed secretly by smart glasses
The 3018 has taken around twenty reports since January, most involving Meta’s glasses. One girl filmed in the street received death threats after the video spread.
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Fifteen years in the first sentence under America’s deepfake law
James Strahler II used more than 100 AI models to harass at least six women, distributing real and fabricated images of them. He is the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act.
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Google apologises as Korea weighs criminal complaint over victim data
The company says a principle that sensitive information must never be shared with third-party research databases “was not strictly upheld”. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is considering legal action.
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Canadian officer who made AI images of female colleagues will not be charged
The police watchdog said his conduct was serious and would have lasting effects on the women, but that he had committed no offence. Canada’s new law on sexual deepfakes, in force since July, is built around distributing them.
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Man found guilty of making sexualised deepfakes of students and staff
Antonio Rotondo told the jury that women who had never seen the altered images could not have been harmed by them. He was convicted on all 17 counts.
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Camera glasses should blur faces by default, Australian regulator says
Men who film women in the street and post the footage are using smart glasses to do it, and the videos draw misogynistic comments that compound the harm, the eSafety Commissioner says.
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Violence against Iraqi women tied to online abuse
Attackers rely on women’s fear of social stigma to keep them from reporting, researchers told an Iraqi investigative network, in a country where online abuse is still handled under a penal code written long before the internet.
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Glasses that record without consent face growing scrutiny
Smart glasses that can record without consent and disproportionately affect women and children are coming under growing global scrutiny.