South Korea-based internet platform Naver’s metaverse subsidiary “Naver Z Corp.” declared its collaboration with INHOPE for the protection of youth from sexual exploitation and abuse on the virtual venue. The respective collaboration will lead both INHOPE and Naver Z will increase the monitoring technology along with establishing a reporting hotline.
Naver Z Collaborates with INHOPE to Stop Sexual Abuse on Its Zepeto Metaverse
This would be an endeavor to eliminate sexually exploitative content present on Naver Z’s Zepeto metaverse to eradicate sex abuse, as per the press release. INHOPE counts as a worldwide network comprising hotlines struggling to confront the online spreading of material related to the sexual abuse of children. It has been supported by fifty hotlines throughout forty-six countries, as per the official website of the company.
The platform has been formally sponsored by the top brands taking into account Interpol, TikTok, Meta, and Google, as well as the rest of them. Formerly, Naver Z has collaborated with many online safety institutions across the globe. They also take into account the Trust and Safety Professional Association (TSPA), ConnectSafely, and Tech Coalition. The purpose of such partnerships was to prevent sexual wrongdoings against children.
Naver Z, in its collaboration with ConnectSafely, established safety instructions to assist guardians and parents in taking care of the underage consumers of Zepeto. A lot of the reports have been witnessed since the previous year regarding the incidents of sexual abuse because of the utilization of the metaverse technology across the jurisdiction of South Korea.
South Korean Officials Endeavor to Minimize Rising Child Sexual Exploitation on Metaverse
In October 2022, it was brought to the front that a thirty-year-old resident of Korea was sent to prison for 4 years due to allegedly developing sexually exploitative material comprising of the children who were lured by him on the metaverse.
Shia Hyun-young, a policymaker for Democratic Party filed a proposal in June to sanction sexual crime taking place in the world of the metaverse. There are more than twenty million per-month active consumers under the Zepeto metaverse of Naver Z. Majority of them are teenagers belonging to diverse areas across the Asian region.
The Korea Communication Commission, the media regulation institution of South Korea, additionally formed a council in the previous month. It is promised by the commission that the agency would pursue an exclusive regulatory paradigm to establish a trustworthy and fair digital society within the span of the metaverse sector.