YouTube experiments with blurring thumbnails of ‘mature’ videos
YouTube is experimenting with blurring thumbnail images for videos that contain “mature content”, including sexual themes, the company says. In a post announcing the test, YouTube…
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Take It Down Act: Sharing non-consensual deepfake porn to become illegal in the US
Sharing sexually explicit photos and videos without the consent of people depicted in the content, including AI-generated deepfake adult content, is to become illegal in the…
UK regulator warns ‘hundreds’ of porn sites about looming age verification deadline
Ofcom says that sites providing porn in the UK must implement “highly effective” age verification processes by July 25, 2025, to ensure that users are aged…
Sweden plans to criminalize paying for remote sex acts, sparking cam fears
Sweden’s government has asked the country’s Parliament to amend its laws regarding buying sexual services, so they include giving money to people remotely to perform sex…
Texas lawmaker proposes age verification for people buying ‘obscene’ sextech products online
A bill has been proposed in Texas, which if passed would make it the first US state to legally require online retailers to verify customers’ ages…
The UK’s Online Safety Act could kill independent adult sites—and accessibility along with them
Last week, I deliberately broke my website to remove accessibility features for UK users. I had been recording audio of erotic stories to enable blind users…
Deepfake porn app claims to work with AI abuse victim organization, provides no evidence
Deepfake porn generator app ClothOff, which creates nude deepfake images from photos of real people and promised to let users “undress anyone using AI”, claimed that…
Autoblow ‘addiction warning’ highlights usage time, and potential privacy issues
The inventor of the Autoblow penis stroker has revealed that 15 percent of the device’s users spend more than an hour each day with their Autoblow…
UK to criminalize owning AI tools designed to make child sexual abuse material, amid wider AI crackdown
The UK government has said that the country will become the first to criminalize owning, making or distributing AI tools that are designed to create child…
UK deepfake law proposes up to two years in prison for porn creators
The UK government is set to make creating non-consensual deepfake porn, and preparing technology elements to create such content, criminal offences. On January 7, 2025 the…
US lawmaker wants to ban sex toys from non-sexually orientated stores
A lawmaker has proposed a bill in Texas that would ban the sale of sex toys in business establishments deemed not to be “sexually orientated”, including…
Deepfake porn guides easily accessible via search engines, despite crackdown
The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can…
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from the DeepNude app's brief viral moment through the nudify industry's current expansion, mapping…
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