Featured Session | Grace Tame & Associate Professor Campbell Wilson. The Unfair Fight: The Tech Arms Race Between Child Sex Offenders and Law Enforcement

Society is digitally dependent, increasingly encrypted and technology is enabling the proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Leading child protection advocate Grace Tame and Associate Professor Campbell Wilson have united to fight back.

This conversation explores tech-facilitated corruption of cognition and morality. In the online child exploitation landscape, law enforcement is in an arms race against offenders using an exponentially evolving arsenal including generative AI, social media, bots, the dark web and sextortion.

Grace and Campbell emphasise the need for survivors’ lived experience to be centred in tech-based child exploitation prevention, intervention and response measures.

They call on communities to get informed and question mainstream narratives. It’s incumbent on us all to pressure tech giants and governments to protect children.