Child sexual extortion cases in the UK soar
www.iwf.org.uk
Charities warn threat of sexual extortion (or sextortion) against children ‘not diminishing’ as new data show sextortion cases soar 72% in a year.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37122335

  • Sexual extortion, or ‘sextortion’ scams against children and young people on the rise, with ‘hideous and callous cruelty’ used to blackmail victims.
  • Boys still at particular risk as numbers surge – making up 97% of confirmed sextortion cases seen by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
  • UK’s Report Remove service, run jointly by Childline and the IWF, sees significant rise in children self-reporting nude or sexual imagery which may have got out of control online.
  • 3dcadminAEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I am seeing it already here in the UK. Remember our privacy laws are totally different than plenty of other places, and most overshared without understanding the hows or whys. Oversharing might not be an issue now, but it will be in the future - that is why it is important to understand why it can be bad