Child sexual abuse: Self-generated imagery found in over 90% of removed webpages

Published:  Wed 17 Jan 2024

More than 90% of child sexual abuse webpages taken down from the internet now include self-generated images, according to the charity responsible for finding and removing such material.

The Internet Watch Foundation said that it discovered self-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) featuring children under 10 on more than 100,000 webpages in the last year. That figure is an increase of 66% on the year before.

In total, a record 275,655 webpages were confirmed to contain CSAM, the IWF said, an increase of 8%. The new data prompted a renewed attack on end-to-end encryption from the UK government, backed by the IWF.

Read the full article at The Guardian.

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