Authorship of a policy-relevant research report

Anri van der Spuy

Anri van der Spuy is one of six credited authors of the December 2024 DFC report setting out principles for addressing technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. That report subsequently became a source in Australian eSafety guidance.

The published contribution

The report cover names van der Spuy alongside Witting, Burton, Day, Livingstone and Sylwander. eSafety later cited the report for discussion of platform hopping and beside a separate encryption recommendation. The retained evidence does not allocate individual passages among the six authors, so neither recommendation should be attributed personally to van der Spuy without further drafting evidence.

What the records show

From the investigation

What the cited report supports

The footnote29 URL points to the 61-page December2024 report Guiding principles for addressing technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse , by Anri van der Spuy, Sabine Witting, Patrick Burton, Emma Day, Sonia Livingstone and Kim R. Sylwander. The report cover and p61 citation identify a Digital Futures for Children centre publication; the LSE repository calls it a technical report. The toolkit citation instead includes Security and Safety, vol.4 . That is a bibliographic discrepancy, not yet proof of an incorrectly linked document.

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Further reading

Encryption-guidance origins: funding, review access and the missing wording record

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What the connections say

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