Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Recent reporting, brand coverage, ongoing story threads, and source-backed context from SEXTECHGUIDE.
Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News Apple and Google ignored own policies while nudify apps hit 700 million downloads
An investigation by Tech Transparency Project found over 100 AI 'nudify' apps on Apple's App Store and Google Play that generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes, collectively amassing 705 million downloads and $117 million in revenue.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Aylo lobbies Apple, Google and Microsoft for device-level porn age verification
Aylo has written to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging them to implement age verification at the device level rather than the site level. The company argues that site-based age verification is fundamentally flawed, citing
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Deepfake porn guides easily accessible via search engines, despite crackdown
An investigation by Glamour Magazine found that major search engines including Google, Bing, and Yahoo continue to surface tutorials, guides, and tools for creating deepfake porn despite stated crackdowns on nonconsensual intimate imagery. The
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Google’s anti-deepfake tools for Search are getting better at hiding results and removing images
Google has updated its Search algorithms to suppress non-consensual deepfake porn results and expanded the scope of removal requests to include duplicate images. The article examines both the effectiveness of these new measures and
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Google is cracking down on deepfake porn via Search throttling and advert bans
Google has implemented two key measures to combat deepfake porn: throttling its visibility in search results and banning ads that promote synthetic sexually explicit content via a policy effective May 30, 2024. The article
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Review ‘Shariah compliant’ anti-porn browser promises Islam-friendly internet (results vary)
SEXTECHGUIDE reviews Kahf Browser, a 'Shariah compliant' browser extension and app from Turkish startup Halalz, designed to block porn and other haram content for Muslim users. Testing revealed significant gaps in its filtering capabilities,
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News Google SafeSearch will blur NSFW image results by default
Google announced it will blur sexually explicit and graphically violent images by default in search results, even for users without SafeSearch enabled, as part of its Safer Internet Day initiative. Users can opt out
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News ‘Google treats us like porn’: Lelo joins chorus of complaints against Big Tech’s treatment of sextech
Lelo's head of content Valentina Holjevac has publicly criticized Google and TikTok for treating sextech brands like pornography, limiting their ability to market products through mainstream digital channels. The article highlights industry-wide frustration with
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News Lovehoney slams Google SafeSearch for ‘preventing sexual happiness’
Lovehoney publicly accused Google of 'preventing consenting adults from achieving sexual happiness' after a 2021 SafeSearch update blocked its website for an estimated 250,000 users per month, costing the retailer approximately one million customers.
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News Apple bans anti-vax dating app Unjected from App Store
Apple removed the anti-vaxxer dating app Unjected from its App Store for inappropriately referencing the COVID-19 pandemic, while Google kept it on Play Store with a misinformation warning. The article examines the app's controversial
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News Google’s banning ‘sugar dating’ apps from the Play Store
Google is updating its Play Store content policy to explicitly ban 'sugar dating' apps from September 1, building on a similar advertising policy change earlier in 2021. The article contextualizes this move within a
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News Dating app for polyamorous people accuses Google of suppressing ‘unconventional thoughts’
Polyamorous dating app #open was removed from Google Play on March 6 after a description update triggered the platform's sexual content policy, with the offending terms including 'threesomes' and 'DTF'. The app's founders accuse
