Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Sharing deepfake porn without consent will be illegal in UK
The UK government is moving to make sharing non-consensual deepfake pornography illegal in England and Wales through the Online Safety Bill, removing the need for prosecutors to prove intent to cause harm. The legislation
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes ‘Consent not required’: The worrying rise of MrDeepFakes
This article examines the BBC documentary exposing MrDeepFakes, a site with 13 million monthly visitors hosting over 20,000 non-consensual deepfake porn videos of celebrities. The site's anonymous founder defended the content by claiming consent
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes India blocks Pornhub and Brazzers in ‘obscene material’ crackdown
India's Ministry of Electronics and IT blocked 67 adult websites including Pornhub, Brazzers, BangBros, AdultFriendFinder, and Chaturbate in September 2022, citing 'obscene material' that tarnishes women's modesty. The move brings India's total banned porn
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage ‘Impossible to comply’: California passes bill that could set adult content age verification precedent
California's AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, passed in September 2022 and requires websites likely accessed by children to verify users' ages with 'reasonable certainty.' The bill, expected to be signed by Governor
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News Mastercard and Visa cut ties with MindGeek’s massive ad network
Mastercard and Visa have severed payment services from TrafficJunky, MindGeek's advertising network, following a judge's refusal to drop Visa as a defendant in a sexual abuse case involving a minor's video uploaded to Pornhub.
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News Porn site ads are being used to spread news about Russia’s war against Ukraine
Pro-Ukraine campaigners have been using advertisements on Russian porn and gambling sites to bypass state censorship and deliver accurate news about the war in Ukraine to Russian and Belarusian audiences. Because these platforms are
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News Chinese researchers develop wearable device that triggers ‘porn alarm’
Chinese researchers at Beijing Jiaotong University have developed a wearable brain-reading device that detects when a wearer is watching pornography and triggers an alarm, achieving 80% accuracy in trials. The technology is proposed as
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage xHamster blocked in Germany, stoking fears of further porn censorship
xHamster has been blocked in Germany by major ISPs after the country's Commission for Youth Media Protection ruled the site violated the Youth Media Protection State Treaty by lacking mandatory age verification. The block
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Age Verification: UK government takes aim at social media platforms hosting porn
The UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is proposing an expansion of the Online Safety Bill to require social media platforms hosting porn, such as Twitter and Reddit, to implement robust
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Interview ‘Trafficking and porn are different’: Meet the world’s most sex-positive accountant
An interview with Dr. Cendrine Chappuis (aka Ash Dark), CEO of DiTa, a tax firm specializing in sex worker clients, and secretary of the Sex Work Survival Guide Summit. The article explores financial discrimination
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Age verification crackdown continues: France joins Germany in threatening to block porn sites
France's Higher Audiovisual Council threatened to block Pornhub, xHamster, Xvideos, XNXX, and TuKif unless they implemented age verification by December 28, 2021, following a similar crackdown in Germany. The article covers the escalating European
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Hundreds of women tricked into making porn for GirlsDoPorn win video rights
402 women deceived into making explicit videos for GirlsDoPorn have been granted legal ownership of those videos by a San Diego judge, enabling them to issue DMCA takedown notices. The ruling follows a sex
