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Pupils 'AirDrop nudes in class'

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Vincent
Published date29 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
In a Women and Equalities committee hearing on attitudes to girls and women in schools and other educational settings, Soma Sara, founder and chief executive of Everyone's Invited (EI), a movement against sexual violence, said that in one reported case, pupils were "AirDropping nudes in a maths class to other students"

AirDrop is a service that allows Apple users to wirelessly transfer photographs and videos between their devices, including iPhones.

And she said Google Drive, a cloud-based storage system, has been used to host "non-consensually shared images".

Pupils socialise at house parties and after school, she said, saying it is "very challenging" for teachers to "get a hold on behaviour that is happening outside of school and also on young people's phones".

Ms Sara said "the rise and the mainstreaming of hardcore pornography" and the ways in which young people conduct much of their lives online has led to new kinds of abuse emerging in recent years.

"A lot of young people I've spoken to, they don't really understand that it's wrong or understand the impact it's actually having on them," she said.

"It's just become so normalised that...

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