Sextortion and deepfakes : how to protect your teens and report
The Canadian Center for Child Protection (CCPE) is concerned about a new sextortion technique targeting minors: hyper-trickery, better known as deepfake . Here's how to protect your teen and get help.The ploy is to initiate a conversation with a minor, especially adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16, on a video chat platform. After an innocuous conversation, recorded without the victim's knowledge, the sextorers superimpose the face of the child or teenager on a pornographic video. The result is very convincing.
This is when the blackmail begins. The sextorcher threatens the victim to broadcast the video on social networks and to other students at his school. Unless she sends money, gift cards, or nude photos of herself to the predator.
"We know very well that sexual predators are not lacking in imagination to exploit children," indicates René Morin, spokesperson for the CCPE. We have received enough reports in recent months to warn the public against hyperfacting . "
According to reports received by the organization, many websites and platforms are used by sextorers, including Facebook Messenger, Skype, Omegle, Instagram, Snapchat, Google Hangouts and Line App.
Prevent sextortion in minors
So, how do you get away from predators? To put the odds in your favor, it is best to make sure you never accept an unsolicited videoconferencing request.
“It's never a good idea to answer video calls from people you don't know. Most video platforms allow you to refuse calls from strangers, ”advises René Morin.
For example, Skype software settings allow users to choose not to appear in search results for people they haven't chatted with yet. Privacy settings also allow you to choose to only receive calls from your contacts.
“It is also possible to have the camera off by default when you answer a call,” adds the spokesperson for the CCPE.
Adolescents do not always communicate their fears or problems to their parents. It may therefore be useful to let them explore the resources tefaispassextorquer.ca and aidezmoisvp.ca measure on their own, as a preventive , says René Morin. These two resources will give them useful tips for responding to predators and guide them in their efforts to expose their sextor, if they ever need to.
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In its definition of child pornography, the Canadian Criminal Code includes “any photographic representation (...) in which a person under the age of eighteen appears or portrayed as such and engaging in or portrayed as engaging in sexual activity explicit ”. According to René Morin, hyper-rigged videos are therefore subject to the same provisions and sanctions as any other type of child pornography.
As soon as you realize that your child has been tricked, stop all communication and immediately report the situation to cyberhelp.ca and your local police department. Log off all your child's sessions (including those opened on other devices) and, if possible, temporarily deactivate their account. Don't delete anything: investigators will need the conversation history.
“You should know that the sextorers who do that is their hobby. They probably prey on several children, have claimed other victims. We must therefore not delay making a report so that we can find them, ”recommends René Morin.
The most popular social networks have mechanisms in place to denounce and have pornographic images removed. The CCPE has also developed Arachnid, a technology that limits the availability of this type of content on the Web.
On aidezmoisvp.ca , young people will find examples of messages to send to platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to have pornographic photos or videos removed, whether or not they are hyper-faked.
This is when the blackmail begins. The sextorcher threatens the victim to broadcast the video on social networks and to other students at his school. Unless she sends money, gift cards, or nude photos of herself to the predator.
"We know very well that sexual predators are not lacking in imagination to exploit children," indicates René Morin, spokesperson for the CCPE. We have received enough reports in recent months to warn the public against hyperfacting . "
According to reports received by the organization, many websites and platforms are used by sextorers, including Facebook Messenger, Skype, Omegle, Instagram, Snapchat, Google Hangouts and Line App.
Prevent sextortion in minors
So, how do you get away from predators? To put the odds in your favor, it is best to make sure you never accept an unsolicited videoconferencing request.
“It's never a good idea to answer video calls from people you don't know. Most video platforms allow you to refuse calls from strangers, ”advises René Morin.
For example, Skype software settings allow users to choose not to appear in search results for people they haven't chatted with yet. Privacy settings also allow you to choose to only receive calls from your contacts.
“It is also possible to have the camera off by default when you answer a call,” adds the spokesperson for the CCPE.
Adolescents do not always communicate their fears or problems to their parents. It may therefore be useful to let them explore the resources tefaispassextorquer.ca and aidezmoisvp.ca measure on their own, as a preventive , says René Morin. These two resources will give them useful tips for responding to predators and guide them in their efforts to expose their sextor, if they ever need to.
Trapped: How to Get Help
In its definition of child pornography, the Canadian Criminal Code includes “any photographic representation (...) in which a person under the age of eighteen appears or portrayed as such and engaging in or portrayed as engaging in sexual activity explicit ”. According to René Morin, hyper-rigged videos are therefore subject to the same provisions and sanctions as any other type of child pornography.
As soon as you realize that your child has been tricked, stop all communication and immediately report the situation to cyberhelp.ca and your local police department. Log off all your child's sessions (including those opened on other devices) and, if possible, temporarily deactivate their account. Don't delete anything: investigators will need the conversation history.
“You should know that the sextorers who do that is their hobby. They probably prey on several children, have claimed other victims. We must therefore not delay making a report so that we can find them, ”recommends René Morin.
The most popular social networks have mechanisms in place to denounce and have pornographic images removed. The CCPE has also developed Arachnid, a technology that limits the availability of this type of content on the Web.
On aidezmoisvp.ca , young people will find examples of messages to send to platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to have pornographic photos or videos removed, whether or not they are hyper-faked.
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