Technology companies in Britain will be required to block unsolicited sexual images under online safety rules taking effect on Thursday, as...

Britain has fined AVS Group £1 million for failing to implement effective age checks on its 18 adult websites, the largest penalty under th...

Social media platform X has criticised the UK's Online Safety Act, warning it could suppress free speech through excessive regulation. Whil...

Female politicians worldwide are increasingly being targeted by AI-generated deepfake pornography, a growing issue that threatens their car...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer called out online companies directly, after false information about the identity of the 17-year-old suspected i...

Lawmakers urge tighter online sexual exploitation safeguards. OnlyFans faces lawsuits over nonconsensual porn. Ofcom monitors enforcement o...

Britain proposed new age-check guidance on Tuesday to protect children from accessing pornography online, including a suggestion to use AI-...

The government's newly passed Online Safety Act requires sites and apps that display or publish pornographic content to ensure that childre...

Women are a particular target of AI tools and apps -- widely available for free and requiring no technical expertise -- that allow users to...

Artificial intelligence-enabled deepfakes are typically associated with fake viral images of well-known personalities such as Pope Francis ...

Southeast Asia is one of TikTok's biggest markets in terms of user numbers. But the platform has yet to translate the large user base into ...

The study found a slight increase in both apps' popularity in the past year, with TikTok now being used by 53% of children (up from 50%), a...

According to figures recently published by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Young Children), Snapchat accounted...

Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower, appeared before a parliamentary sele...

Tech platforms will also need to do more to protect children from being exposed to grooming, bullying and pornography, the government said,...

The nature and variety of pornography available on the Internet is diverse and includes content that many will find abhorrent and distastef...

A blanket ban on all pornographic content is rarely considered effective because of the plethora of workarounds available.