Esafety would not announce the number of reports it had received. Although the “rapid increase” is a reason for concern, Inman Grant warned that reality might be worse.
“We have heard anecdotal from school leaders and representatives of the education sector that the Diepvoers take place more often, in particular because children have easy access to and abuse apps in school environments.”
‘A crisis that affects school communities’
“We have seen alarming that these apps are used to humiliate, bully and sexually squeeze children on the schoolyard and beyond. There have also been reports that some of these images were traded in exchange for money.”
A ‘standardization’ of creating deputies
“We also see a series of motivations for the incidents, from sexual satisfaction, to the deliberate cause of damage, controlling or humiliating the target of the image, to think that it is funny, to build social status among peers and curiosity in the way in which the process of creating deep -sectioning works,” she said.
When it comes to young people, he warned that this can happen online or in school communities, such as messages apps, “where we still have more limited visibility of what they share”.
‘We will not hesitate to take regulatory action’
“We will not hesitate to take regulatory action,” she said.
“But the most important thing would be to increase the consciousness and an ethical understanding of technology in school children.”
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