Writing · Child safety and age assurance
Nudify apps are a growing problem, and a clear example of harm no single platform sees in full. The image gets made on one service, the tool gets promoted on another, and the harm lands on a third.
Thats why signal sharing through Lantern matters. Glad to see the Tech Coalition getting this in front of a wider audience. 👏
Online enticement is a pattern of contact, not a file, and is now mandatory to report. The hard call is the account: ban visibly, or restrict quietly while the network is mapped.
Ofcom's Growing Up Gaming research: 55% of children who game online play with people they've never met offline at least sometimes, and strangers are parents' top concern, yet only 43% set rules about who their child plays with. Platforms should close that gap with defaults (contact limited to people a child knows, friction on adults reaching unknown children, one clear parental switch) and measure how often strangers reach kids.
Financial sextortion can go from first contact to a payment demand inside a day, too fast for grooming detection built for weeks. Start with defaults that limit who can message a teen and notices about strangers, then a fast, shame-free response with an on-call emergency referral and a CyberTipline report.