London Mayor Axes Cyber Crime Victim Support Line (ft.com)
(Tuesday April 01, 2025 @11:30AM (msmash)
from the how-about-that dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1531202/london-mayor-axes-cyber-crime-victim-support-line
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/b688997e-21a0-4b02-ada8-020c93cedb3e
London's mayor has [1]axed a cyber crime helpline for the victims of online abuse, triggering a backlash from campaigners who argue that women and girls will be left struggling to access vital support. From a report:
> The service, which was shut down on Tuesday, assisted victims of fraud, revenge porn and cyberstalking to protect their digital identity. During its 18-months of operation it led to 2,060 cases being opened. The helpline was launched in 2023 as a one-year pilot scheme with $220,000 in funding from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), and was later extended by six months.
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> Conservative London Assembly member Emma Best said an informal evaluation showed the helpline "was working" and was going to be extended for another year. However, Sadiq Khan said that the scheme would be closed. "It was a pilot and pilots are what they say on the tinâ... we will receive an end of project report, we have collected the data and the results of that report will inform our future work," he said, speaking at Mayor's Question Time.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b688997e-21a0-4b02-ada8-020c93cedb3e
> The service, which was shut down on Tuesday, assisted victims of fraud, revenge porn and cyberstalking to protect their digital identity. During its 18-months of operation it led to 2,060 cases being opened. The helpline was launched in 2023 as a one-year pilot scheme with $220,000 in funding from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), and was later extended by six months.
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> Conservative London Assembly member Emma Best said an informal evaluation showed the helpline "was working" and was going to be extended for another year. However, Sadiq Khan said that the scheme would be closed. "It was a pilot and pilots are what they say on the tinâ... we will receive an end of project report, we have collected the data and the results of that report will inform our future work," he said, speaking at Mayor's Question Time.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b688997e-21a0-4b02-ada8-020c93cedb3e
"women and girls will be left struggling" (Score:2)
by greytree ( 7124971 )
"Oh, and fuck the men and boys because we're woke and therefore hate them."
People don't teach their sons and daughters ... (Score:2)
by Qbertino ( 265505 )
... online 101: Through-away and spoof accounts for anything but the most critical things: professional official named online publication, professional PR or legally binding business transaction.
All else: Spoof accounts, Pseudonyms, single-identity mail addresses and online accounts, etc.
This is the very first thing my daughter learned from her IT daddy when she got her first netbook at the age of 16 on which I already had set up one realname and one spoof account. She listened and to this day is careful wh
It's getting hard... (Score:2)
by 0xG ( 712423 )
to tell the April Fools items from reality.
So ... (Score:2)
... which one of the royals did they catch e-mailing pics of their junk?