Laura Dowling

And then you end up in a really, really toxic gender-based violence relationship unknown to you.

It's terrifying.

And I say all of that and people are like, whoa, you're scaremongering.

I'm not scaremongering.

Actually, I'm telling you a fact.

Like we have an absolute epidemic with what we see online, particularly through the lenses of porn.

I mean, the fact is technology is moving so bloody fast in comparison to the legislation that's moving at a glacier pace.

We have these acts called the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Media Act.

And the issue is they're all well and good, but they have no teeth and they're not moving at a pace where we're holding tech companies accountable.

Yeah.

I'm a believer that if you and I sign up to use LinkedIn or Facebook or Aramid, I should say, or Instagram, it should be treated like Revolut or Airbnb.

You pop in your identification, you pop in your name, they're able to cross hold it.

Your data is protected, but we know, OK, Maria can't have multiple accounts because she's already registered to this one.

We need to eliminate that.

You have face ID so they know it's you.

We also need to do things like when you...

At any age, sometimes we only focus on under 16, but at any age in your app center or your application on your phone, you should be age verified there.

And then we need to have the likes of Commission Amman actually have teeth versus pushing it with grok, pushing it to the European Commission.

And then it takes a year and a half for them to come back to say this is wrong.

Like it's it needs to move at a speed of which technology is moving at.