Digital Safeguarding

A collection of 27 posts

Safer Internet Day

Young People Encounter Harmful, Age-Restricted and Illegal Content Within Minutes of Going Online

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. New research, launched on Safer Internet Day, reveals that shockingly almost one in ten (9%) young people have come across Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on the internet. Findings also show that children

Online Harms

Senate hearing over online harms

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. “Speaking as someone who has been heavily involved in similar hearings related to online safety, they are invaluable in raising awareness on important topics. However, rather than pointing fingers now is the time

Digital Safeguarding

The Surge of Social Media-enabled Financial Sextortion

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. A recent study by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) 'A digital pandemic: Uncovering the role of 'Yahoo Boys' in the surge of social media-enabled financial sextortion targeting minors.'

Digital Safeguarding

Safe Experiences Online: The Need for Regulation & Effective Implementation

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. VerifyMy's Commitment to Responsible Tech, Accountability & Collaboration In the rapidly evolving landscape of the digital age, the need for regulation to protect people online has become not just a necessity

Digital Safeguarding

Global Threat Assessment 2023 - WeProtect Global Alliance

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. WeProtect Global Alliance has published its latest report, assessing the scale and scope of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. The report finds that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) reports have increased by

Digital Safeguarding

Online platforms that fail to tackle child sexual abuse material could lose bank accounts

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. British banks could lead the way in using their influence over their customers to tackle child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) found online by withdrawing financial services. In a move which mirrors the existing

CSAM

Removing child sexual exploitation and abuse materials: call to action

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. The clue is in the name - the ‘World-Wide Web’ is a truly global entity, so it is both natural and welcome that the United Nations is showing an increased interest in preventing

Digital Safeguarding

The growing problem of online-facilitated child sexual abuse

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. This IICSA investigation focusses on the growing problem of online-facilitated child sexual abuse. The increase in access to and use of the internet has brought undeniable benefits to society. It has also enabled

Digital Safeguarding

'Phones have become a battleground for parenting in the age of social media'

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. Margaret Lynch looks at the question of smartphone use for children and shares her own experiences for The Journal. Keeping your kids offline only prevents them from learning the tools which will be

Digital Safeguarding

What Are Kids Doing in the Metaverse?

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. New report shares the details families, companies, and lawmakers need to keep kids safe. The metaverse is a hot topic right now. Newspapers are writing about it, tech corporations are investing in it,

Digital Safeguarding

Online Child Exploitation and Child Sexual Abuse Materials

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. The phenomena of selling, exchanging, and producing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) is trending upwards at an alarming rate. CSAM commerce is estimated to be a multibillion dollar business. To assist in identifying

Digital Safeguarding

I Didn’t Consent: A Global Landscape Report on Image-Based Sexual Abuse

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. ‍The Image-Based Sexual Abuse initiative, powered by Panorama Global, published its landmark report. With social media, smart phones, and other technology woven seamlessly into all facets of everyday life, many of us – primarily

News

Children’s Commissioner Report

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. The Children’s Commissioner for England publishes results of nationally representative survey of 1,000 young people aged 16 to 21 and focus groups with teenagers. Read full report here 31st January 2023:

News

UK Online Safety Bill gains teeth

Follow VerifyMy on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the latest safety tech and regulatory developments. British ministers reached a compromise with backbenchers from their own party who had been pressing for senior executives in tech companies to be made criminally liable for breaches of the new Online Safety

News

ASACP name VerifyMy as one of its valued Featured Sponsors for December 2022

VerifyMy, the Google for Startups-backed safety-tech provider, has a mission to make the Internet a safer place via their VerifyMyAge and VerifyMyContent safety-tech solutions designed to deliver the best consumer experience without compromising the needs of the business. VerifyMyAge is a global leader in age assurance technology, safeguarding children by

News

VerifyMy joins WeProtect Global Alliance

We're excited to become a member of WeProtect Global Alliance to help in the fight to make the internet safer for children and society. Working with the Alliance, we will continue to develop our safeguarding solutions designed to solve the compliance and safeguarding problems of today's

Age Appropriate Design Code

California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AB 2273)

Status: On Monday 29th August 2022 the California State Senate approved the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. Both the Senate and the State Assembly did so unanimously so there is clear bi-partisan support. If signed by the Governor, the law comes into force on July 1, 2024. What is it:

Online Safety Bill

VerifyMyContent discussed in UK Parliament

In a high-profile debate during the passage of the Online Safety Bill, the VerifyMyContent solution was referenced to demonstrate the technical feasibility of requiring adult websites to maintain effective records of identity and consent verification for all those who feature within their content. Following some 50 hours of debate in

Online Safety Bill

UK Online Safety Bill may act to tackle the issue of consent in pornography

It has often been said that global corporations may wield more power and influence than national governments.  A prime example of this has been Mastercard’s strong and principled stand against underage performers in adult content and the issue of participant consent. Their rule book was updated last year to

Online Safety Bill

The Online Safety Bill - The impact on your business

Until now, the debate around the UK’s Online Safety Bill and age verification has centred on the adult industry and the requirement to prevent children from accessing online pornography. However, whilst the recently-published revised draft certainly tackles this issue, it also has far more wide-ranging implications for websites across

Online Safety Bill

New online safety rules legally require porn sites to verify the age of users

The UK government today signalled a dramatic acceleration in the enforcement of age verification for every adult website available to Internet users in the United Kingdom.

German AV Law

German court upholds ban on Cyprus-based adult sites

German courts have taken a further significant step in clarifying the complex question of jurisdiction over the regulation of the internet within the EU by making it clear that the German government can take action against pornographic websites based in other EU states that breach German laws on child protection.

The Children's Code

VerifyMyAge Report: The Age Appropriate Design Code and its impact on your business

VerifyMyAge's report outlines the essential requirements of The Children's Code (or the Age Appropriate Design Code) and its impact on your business. The Code marks a significant step forward in addressing the challenges related to the processing of personal data, particularly of those under 18. For

Age Verification

VerifyMyAge Report: A Blueprint for Age Verification in Online Adult Entertainment

VerifyMyAge’s blueprint report explores the current state of play in regard to how the European Union, United Kingdom, France and Germany are tackling age verification for access to adult content and what this means for local consumers and the content providers. There is presently no uniform global or regional

Digital Safeguarding

In the next decade, we won't be able to do anything online without proving who we are first

Policy drawn up in response to a moral panic is rarely well thought through. The fever pitch debate at present about how to address online trolling and abuse is perhaps as noisy as it has ever been. The seeds were sown during the World Cup when England's players