Child sex abuse victims want Online Safety Bill strengthened

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Child sex abuse victims want Online Safety Bill strengthened
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Charities say online predators increasingly live-stream, an area not covered by the bill.

A recent report by thethat offenders were paying on average about £27 to view the sexual abuse of children.

The National Crime Agency reports that between 550,000 and 850,000 people in the UK pose a risk to children at any one moment. Andy Burrows, from the charity, said: "Live-streaming services expanded rapidly during the pandemic, but in a race to roll out products tech firms put growth before children's safety."

It claims it is developing AI technology that can recognise when child exploitation is taking place "in real-time, in live-stream content" on mobile devices and "disable the camera".He said: "Using machine learning as a means of detecting live-streamed videos of child sexual abuse is likely to remain very imprecise, much more so than for static photographs.

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