The National Crime Agency (NCA) reports that a signiifcant rise in child sexual abuse being driven by technology and online forums. Whilst the UK laws on protecting children from accessing unsuitable material and grooming by peadofiles the report suggests that things are getting worse.
One of the major issues is that most of the changes are placed on tech companies to establish the necessary guardrails this does not mean that everything will be interecepted by their monitoring soludions.
The NCA said the growth in offending across the UK was driven by technology and linked to the radicalisation of offenders in online forums, encouraging people to view images of child sexual abuse by reassuring them it was normal.
Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.
This one further reason that parental monitoring can add a signifcant layer of support for youg people.
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