A study by the Internet Watch Foundation found that online predators are targeting children’s webcams, and that since 2019, there has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created via webcams and other recording devices worldwide.
Once a predator gains access to a child’s webcam, they can use it to record, produce, and distribute child pornography, and perverts using this type of technology to engage in sexual abuse of children is on the rise, according to aThe report explained that its criminologists have been researching the methods predators use to compromise children’s webcams. To do this, they posed as children by creating several automated chatbots that appeared to be 13-year-old girls.
The researchers’ chatbots ended up logging a total of 953 conversations with self-identified adults who were told they were talking with a 13-year-old girl. The report noted that Whereby is favored among online predators, because they are able to exploit the platform’s functions, allowing them to gain access to a child’s webcam and watch and record the minors without their consent.
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