AI Could Harm Children More Than Social Media? Why This Warning Matters A former senior Google safety leader has issued a stark warning. Artificial intelligence could cause even greater harm to children than social media. Tom Siegel founded Google’s trust and safety team. He now leads the Youth AI Safety Institute at Common Sense Media….
TikTok and Instagram Reels are the social media platforms known for light-hearted dancing and memes that have brought an element of seemingly harmless fun into the dark days of Covid for many of us. But as Anne-Marie Tomchak reports, are we nonchalantly uploading content of our children having fun and ignoring the darker side of…
Hyper-sexualisation of children. What does that even mean? Most parents won’t be aware that there is a global attempt at corporate pornification of young girls. However, a huge amount of parents will also have seen their children partake in dance shows where they have been dressed in very skimpy outfits, wearing make-up and dancing in highly sexual ways. A lot of parents will have felt uncomfortable looking at this. Yet didn’t not have the language or perhaps a fellow parent to suggest, actually I’m uncomfortable with this. I don’t want this for my child.
A West Cork Judge has warned of the dangers and journeys into “the dark side of human behaviour”, through the access of child pornography content on smartphones. Judge James McNulty made his comments as he convicted a Martin Hayes, aged 37, from Clonakilty, Co Cork for possession of child pornographic images discovered by authorities on his iPhone. Judge McNulty also issued a stern warning to those tempted to access such content, noting that the societal implications of a conviction were far worse than a prison sentence.
A new threat has emerged, and it is putting puts both adults and children at risk of appearing in pornographic videos. A number of women found to their horror, images put on their own Social Media profiles, were superimposed, over the faces of porn actress in videos. The seamlessly grafted images in these videos…
It was revelled this week, Facebook permitted third party companies such as Spotify, Microsoft and others to access, not only your personal information, contacts, posts, likes, etc. but also all your private messages on Messenger. This not only enabled third parties to access your messages, but also to create and delete messages in your name.
It will have come as a shock to many this week, to see a young 24-year-old Dublin woman charged with the defilement of a child, a teenage boy. This is something we have not really seen in Ireland up to now. A very young woman, who if convicted of the alleged offence, will be registered Sex Offender. The reported allegations involve a student from the school she worked in, who was under 17.
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