Australia introducing search engine age verification as part of porn crackdown
Search engines operating in Australia must introduce age verification processes for users in the country by the end of 2025, to comply…
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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…
Microsoft hooks up with StopNCII to tackle non-consensual deepfakes on Bing
Microsoft is piloting the use of the anti-nonconsensual deepfake porn platform Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse (StopNCII) on its search engine Bing,…
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 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…
Team behind the Firefox Reality browser has been axed
The Mozilla Foundation, the not-for-profit group responsible for the Firefox browser (among other things) has announced plans to restructure in the wake…
Wordpress owner buys Tumblr, says porn will remain banned
After a difficult year, Tumblr has been sold to Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com (but not WordPress.org). For users hoping the acquisition…
Is Tumblr’s total ban on ‘adult’ content really for its users, or its shareholders?
Tumblr has announced posts containing adult content will no longer be allowed on its site after December 17. Following its acquisition by…
Adult search portal BoodiGo passes 1m user milestone
BoodiGo is an adult-oriented search engine that focuses on privacy.
Google’s making a change to Search rankings that adult sites will hate
Google’s given website owners fair warning that from January next year, it’s going to start penalising the rankings for sites that use…
Firefox’s new privacy feature lets you control which sites get your real personal data
While Facebook is all about a real name policy (that’s caused problems for the LGBT community, among others), Firefox is launching a…
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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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