Joel Scanlan
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Australia’s digital duty of care bill needs these three changes to tackle online child sexual exploitation (opens the original)
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On September 10, the Australian Federal Police announced the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received 100,194 reports of online child sexual exploitation in 2025–26. That is about 275 a day – a 21% rise over the year before, and up from 36,600 four years ago. Read as a measure of how much abuse Australian children are suffering, the figure is alarming. But it’s not an accurate measure. It’s primarily the count of reports made by companies who chose to look for harm occurring on t
Major platforms have the tools to stop sexual extortion, but they’re not using them – new report (opens the original)
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It begins with a follow request. An 18-year-old male accepts one on Instagram from an attractive female stranger. She likes his posts, messages him first, friendly, flattering, quick to move the chat to a messaging app. Within an hour she has shared an intimate image and asked for one in return. The moment he sends it, the flirtation stops: pay, or his image goes to his mother and every friend the blackmailer has found on his profile. A countdown begins. This is a fictional scenario, but in 2025
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