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Charity raises alarm over surge in level of child sexual abuse imagery hosted in EU
Call for Member States to come together and push forward with ‘desperately needed’ child protection laws as thousands of webpages containing children’s sexual abuse traced back to EU servers.
23 April 2025
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Teens face ‘crisis’ of online sexual exploitation as charity says major new Government-backed scheme will ‘put rocket boosters’ on Online Safety Act
IWF announces ‘ground-breaking’ decision to give thousands of smaller platforms free protection from millions of child sexual abuse images and videos as new report reveals scale of online threat to children.
23 April 2025
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UK teen’s sex abuse imagery identified thanks to IWF analysts’ pioneering work with policing database
As teens face a ‘crisis’ of online sexual abuse and exploitation, the IWF looks at why getting imagery of older teens removed can be difficult for some moderators.
23 April 2025
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Peer39 joins with IWF to prevent offenders profiting from the promotion of child sexual abuse content
New collaboration between advertising expert and Internet Watch Foundation will hit criminals in their pockets.
2 April 2025
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AI tools have put child sexual abuse ‘on steroids’, Home Secretary warns
The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.
2 February 2025
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UK makes use of AI tools to create child abuse material a crime
Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images.
1 February 2025
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Charity finds more than 500,000 child abuse victims
An analyst who removes child sexual abuse content from the internet says she is always trying to stay "one step ahead" of the "bad guys".
8 December 2024
IWF In The News
Telegram plans child abuse crackdown following Pavel Durov’s arrest in Paris
Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation.
5 December 2024
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Telegram U-turns and joins child safety scheme
After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
4 December 2024
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Paedophile Hugh Nelson who made AI child abuse images from real pictures sent to him jailed for 18 years in 'deeply horrifying' landmark case
The images that Nelson made have been linked back to real children around the world. In some cases, he then went on to encourage his clients to rape and sexually assault the youngsters.
28 October 2024
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