Dame Rachel de Souza
Dame Rachel de Souza is the Children's Commissioner for England, advocating for children's rights and safety in the digital age. Recently, she has been vocal about the need for a total ban on apps that use artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of children, emphasizing the alarming rise in such technology and its disproportionate impact on girls and young women.
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Dame Rachel de Souza called for a total ban on nudification apps.
UK to ban deepfake AI 'nudification' apps
United Kingdom· 2025-12-19
Dame Rachel de Souza, the children's commissioner for England, urged parents to turn off their phones during family time this Christmas.
Parents told to lead by example and turn off phones this ChristmasUnited Kingdom· 2025-12-18
Dame Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, has called for nudification apps to be banned.
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ | DeepfakeUnited Kingdom· 2025-12-02
Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner, expressed collective outrage over Sara's preventable murder.
Council visited wrong house before Sara Sharif's murderUnited Kingdom· 2025-11-13
Dame Rachel de Souza warned that proposed changes would allow doctors to discuss assisted dying with 17-year-olds deemed competent.
Global euthanasia lobby targets youth as assisted suicide expands
United States· 2025-10-19
Dame Rachel de Souza said she had noticed a significant shift in how young people talked about their lives since she became children’s commissioner.
Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ | Child benefitsUnited Kingdom· 2025-07-08
Dame Rachel de Souza is calling on the government to ban apps that create sexually explicit images of children using AI.
Ban AI apps creating naked images of children, says children's commissionerUnited Kingdom· 2025-04-28