New Report:
App Stores Pushing Users Toward Nonconsensual "Nudify" Apps
Not only do Google and Apple’s app stores host apps that can undress images of women, they also encourage users to find them.
Users see ads for these apps which also appear in autocomplete search queries.
https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/
#SAAM #consent #privacy #nonconsensual #imagery #apps #Google #Apple #law
Consent Game Series
🧐 Find a game appropriate for your child and ask them to play it this week. You might both learn something.
💜 Four award-winning, trauma-informed video games about consent.
▪️ Free.
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▪️ No trackers.
ESRB ratings from E to T.
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Consent is:
- Freely given
- Actively given
- Informed
- Revocable
💜 Consent is FAIR
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Meta's smart glasses make it easy to secretly film people. It's mostly women bearing the fallout
Laws around covert recording have struggled to keep pace with tech changes, law professor says
⭐ Nearby Glasses is an app that scans your surroundings for Bluetooth low-energy signatures, a feature of smart glasses.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/meta-glasses-covert-recording-9.7139927
Smart glasses make it remarkably easy to film someone without their consent. And those who study covert filming say it can create a physical and psychological threat, from stalkers to increased anxiety, as the law struggles to keep up.
5 Ways We Get Consent That Have Nothing to Do With Sex
Asking for consent is pretty easy, and we do it every day — outside the context of sex.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/5-ways-we-get-consent-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-sex
Learning about consent: Raising children who know their boundaries
▪️ “You can say yes or no to hugs and kisses.”
▪️ Encourage them to speak up if they don’t like a game.
▪️ “Would you like a hug?”
https://www.motherandbaby.com/family-life/parenting/teaching-children-about-consent/
Transgender people are 4x more likely than cisgender people to experience victimization, including sexual abuse.
💜 Teach consent from an early age.
For this #SAAM we'd love to see more folks learn and share our free trauma-informed games about #consent.
🎮'ADRIFT' is appropriate for all ages.
🎮'A Thousand Cuts' is for college students and explores the Title IX process.
Age level for the other games is somewhere in-between. Two games have #CW and are labeled.
“25 Years Stronger: Looking Back, Moving Forward"
Over the past 25 years, #SAAM has helped shift how we understand sexual violence.
There has been growing recognition that:
▪️ Violence is not inevitable
▪️ Prevention is possible
▪️ Communities play a central role in creating safety
#PublicHealth #prevention #health #education #sociology #consent
'How to Blorrble-Blobble' illustrates how games can be more than mere entertainment as this fun game about learning to dance teaches young people about consent at the same time. 🕺
Consent Games 
