"In a prior life, I was briefly and mildly Internet famous for my activism and advocacy work. The subsequent intrusions on my life and physical safety became a shocking revelation in how exposed I was, and I found myself scrambling to lock everything down."
Numerous major social platforms including Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap they will submit to a new external grading process that scores social platforms on how well they protect adolescent mental health. The program comes from the Mental Health Coalition's Safe Online Standards (SOS) initiative, which comprises about two dozen standards covering areas like platform policy, functionality, governance and transparency, content oversight and more.
Becky Riggs, the acting chief constable of Staffordshire police, called for tech companies to use AI tools to automatically prevent indecent pictures from being uploaded and shared on their sites. Riggs, who is the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection and abuse, said: I know that these platforms, with the technology that's out there, could prevent these harms from occurring in the first instance.
