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NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K | Here's how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps.


Here’s how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps.

On LinkedIn, her mother, Dorota Mani—who has been working with the governor's office on a commission to protect kids from online harms—thanked lawmakers like Murphy and former New Jersey Assemblyman Herb Conaway, who sponsored the law, for "standing with us." Around the country, as cases like Mani's continue to pop up, experts expect that shame prevents most victims from coming forward to flag abuses, suspecting that the problem is much more widespread than media reports suggest. Within seconds, the apps can nudify the screenshotted images, which Mani told CBS News then spread "rapid fire" by text message and DMs, and often shared over school networks.

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