Safer online
How can technology help young people stay safe online?
A question we have been asking through the research behind AFR?D!, also known in English as Project Aphrodite.
What do we ask?
Could AI-equipped, community-run organisations help tackle sextortion cases?
Sextortion is blackmail that uses private images or messages. Our public paper explores how technology might help people who are targeted, and the people who want to help them.
Read the paper The AFR?D! story (in Greek)
Paper: “Designing Artificial Intelligence Equipped Social Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Tackling Sextortion Cases”.
If this is happening to you
You are not alone, and it is not your fault.
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 112 (the emergency number across the EU).
We are a research initiative, not a helpline. We cannot respond to individual cases.
What do we promise?
- No stories about individuals. We do not share personal details of anyone who has been targeted.
- Only sourced claims. We do not publish numbers we cannot point to.
- Open work. What we learn, we share.
Do you work in education, child safety or research?
We would be glad to hear from you.