US law enforcement officers say Meta and Snapchat routinely delay or reject warrants. The companies disagree Max Osterman was 18…
The Observer: Guns and bomb threats target US politicians
A house speaker killed, a state senator shot, bomb threats and online harassment – a growing hostility is redefining US…
The Observer: No food, no pay, no liberty: marooned sailors plead with shipowners to be rescued
Crew left to drift off Mozambique by firm registered in the UK are latest in rising number abandoned at sea…
Thomson Reuters Foundation: The cost of sanctions: Dark shipping fleet fuels human trafficking
A clandestine network smuggling sanctioned oil around the globe has lured thousands of seafarers into dangerous jobs. NEW YORK –…
Thomson Reuters Foundation: “I’ve seen hell”: Inside the global crisis of seafarer exploitation
Seafarers are the backbone of the global maritime industry, but they’re often illegally recruited, scammed into dangerous work and then…
The Guardian: They hoped their children’s deaths would bring change. Then a Colorado bill to protect kids online failed
Parents who lost children to online harms helped draft the bill – then watched it collapse under political pressure Bereaved…
The Guardian: BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok
US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands – and push some victims to…
The Guardian: A man stalked a professor for six years. Then he used AI chatbots to lure strangers to her home
A man from Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to a seven-year cyberstalking campaign that included using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to impersonate a…
The Guardian: AI is overpowering efforts to catch child predators, experts warn
The volume of sexually explicit images of children being generated by predators using artificial intelligence is overwhelming law enforcement’s capabilities…
The Guardian: ‘People will die’: alarm as Trump’s DEI rollback hits anti-trafficking efforts
Agencies and organizations are complying with the directive to not lose funding, but are concerned vulnerable groups will suffer Katie…
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