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Predators are increasingly weaponizing apps and online services to collect explicit images. Last year, law enforcement received 7,000 reports of children and teenagers who were coerced into sending nude images and then blackmailed for photographs or money. The FBI declined to say how many of those reports were credible.

A free website called the App Danger Project uses Machine Learning and user reviews to determine which apps are dangerous to kids.

Worried about your kids downloading harmful apps? Check out the App Danger Project, an AI tool that flags unsafe apps for kids.

New York Times: Researchers have launched a website to help parents vet apps.

Researchers who found that a fifth of social networking apps have received multiple user complaints about sexual exploitation have launched a website to help parents vet apps.