Since billions of people around the world use smartphones, application stores are also of great importance. Naturally App Store and Google Play the most prominent. There are thousands of applications in these stores. Unfortunately, the number used for malicious purposes is quite high.

A new report published by The New York Times (NYT) shows that app stores are in serious trouble. tackle the problem of child abuse turned out he was the owner.

More than 80 applications were found that were used for child abuse

The report examined applications for live broadcasting. These applications, which are available in Apple and Google stores, have been observed to be used for child abuse. According to NYT is pedophilia By paying money, children are prevented from being exploited through these practices. They looked. Even In more than 80 applications such as Bigo Live It was even discovered that these children were being advertised to be exploited.

Unfortunately, what happened doesn’t end there. There is an even darker side. According to the information in the report, some are direct Parents sell their children to pedophiles in the US through such practices. It added that the places where such situations are most common are underdeveloped, poor countries.

Some examples are also given. For example, in one of these live broadcasts, a few men forced a mother to sexually assault her daughter for ten minutes and show it to them during a live broadcast. $150 paid.

Unfortunately, these disturbing events are not happening in a dark corner of the Internet, but directly in the App Store and Google Play, the application stores of iPhone and Android devices used by billions. We hope that tech giants will pay attention to such reports and take necessary precautions. Otherwise we could face much worse things.