Apple and Google ignored own policies while nudify apps hit 700 million downloads
A new investigation reveals Apple and Google have been hosting over 100 AI apps capable of creating non-consensual nude deepfakes, despite policies…
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Aylo lobbies Apple, Google and Microsoft for device-level porn age verification
The company behind Pornhub has written to the world's biggest tech companies asking them to implement age verification at the device level….
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…
Google’s anti-deepfake tools for Search are getting better at hiding results and removing images
Google has updated its core Search to make non-consensual deepfake porn more difficult to find, and expanded the effects of deepfake porn…
Google is cracking down on deepfake porn via Search throttling and advert bans
Google is banning Google Ads from promoting deepfake porn, and has decreased the visibility of deepfake porn content in Google searches, as…
‘Shariah compliant’ anti-porn browser promises Islam-friendly internet (results vary)
A website content-blocker and app promising ‘Shariah compliant’ browsing has launched, aimed at Muslims who want to filter out content that might…
Google SafeSearch will blur NSFW image results by default
Porn and other sexually explicit images will be automatically blurred when they are found via Google searches, even for users that do…
‘Google treats us like porn’: Lelo joins chorus of complaints against Big Tech’s treatment of sextech
Lelo is the latest sextech brand to slam Google and social media platforms, such as TikTok, for blocking sex-related content and limiting…
Lovehoney slams Google SafeSearch for ‘preventing sexual happiness’
Sextech retailer Lovehoney says that hundreds of thousands of people have been unable to find its website due to Google’s SafeSearch function…
Apple bans anti-vax dating app Unjected from App Store
Apple has banned a dating and community app for anti-vaxxers named Unjected from its App Store, prompting the app founders to complain…
Google’s banning ‘sugar dating’ apps from the Play Store
In a change to its official Google Play content policy terms, Google will remove all ‘sugar dating’ apps from the store from…
Dating app for polyamorous people accuses Google of suppressing ‘unconventional thoughts’
The founders of polyamorous dating app Open (styled as #open) have accused Google of trying to suppress “unconventional thoughts”, after Google Play…
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Brothel integrates smart home tech to create ‘the porn star experience’
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Huge technology companies are shaping your world, but muting your sex life
Google’s making a change to Search rankings that adult sites will hate
Google stays silent after wiping 14 years of controversial author’s work from Blogger
YouTube has a dedicated team reviewing live streams for porn
Watch: Google’s DeepMind expert explain neural networks… back in 2007
Google’s got more powerful ‘private’ browsing tools on the way
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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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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