Uploaded and Re-Uploaded

Unbeknownst to the subjects themselves, photos and videos are turned into sexual “products” traded on smartphone apps. Users looking for money post and spread them one after another, and the authorities can’t keep up — while the victims’ suffering lasts forever. The app is available from Google and Apple and has been downloaded at least 100,000 times. This hell won’t end until IT giants stop enabling these apps.

“Offense of photographing or filming” enacted — the taking and spreading non-consensual, sexually explicit images has been criminalized (13)

2023.07.20 13:48　Mariko Tsuji
30% of Requests for Deletion of Sexually Explicit Images Ignored (12)

2023.06.19 13:13　Mariko Tsuji
Google allowed reposting of app trading child sexual abuse images / The irresponsibility of Google Japan President Shinji Okuyama (11)

2023.05.11 11:41　Mariko Tsuji
But still, the crimes haven’t stopped: How public anger changed South Korean society (part 3)(10)

2023.03.30 16:03　Mariko Tsuji
Six legal revisions enacted in one month: How public anger changed South Korean society (part 2)(9)

2023.03.30 12:45　Mariko Tsuji
How public anger changed South Korean society (part 1): Over 2 million endorsed petition to disclose perpetrators’ identity (8)

2023.03.29 14:42　Mariko Tsuji
Why the police aren’t sufficiently cracking down on digital sex crimes (7)

2023.03.16 16:39　Mariko Tsuji
Over 200 videos of child sexual abuse traded on apps (6)

2023.01.23 16:34　Mariko Tsuji, Makoto Watanabe
The perpetrators’ strategy meeting: “Make their article meaningless” (5)

2022.12.29 18:06　Mariko Tsuji
Exposing over 300 accounts that sell sexual images (4)

2022.12.09 18:23　Mariko Tsuji
339 posters have amassed 1,010,482 “customers” on Twitter (3)

2022.11.30 16:13　Mariko Tsuji
The “keys” used to purchase sexual images in seemingly innocent apps (2)

2022.11.25 16:06　Mariko Tsuji