Child protection analysts have seen a significant rise in reports from children accessing the world-leading Report Remove service run by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the NSPCC’s Childline service.
Ms Smith, who is currently CEO at Human Rights charity, the Helen Bamber Foundation, takes over from Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill, and will be in post in June.
The Security Institute has named the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) as its charity partner for the year after the child protection group presented at its annual conference in October 2024.
The collaboration will grant the social media platform access to IWF’s world-leading tools and datasets for finding, blocking and removing sexual abuse content of children online.
Tighter rules come as IWF warns AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reports have quadrupled in a year.
This partnership will bolster Hive’s capability to help its customers detect and mitigate CSAM on their platforms through a single, integrated API.
Fears ‘blatant get-out clause’ in safety rules may undermine efforts to crack down on criminal imagery.
Local MP Ian Sollom learned about the herculean task faced by analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) who find, assess and remove child sexual abuse material on the internet.
The Internet Watch Foundation and the NSPCC have won an award that recognises the vital service that the Report Remove tool offers children in the UK.
IWF data and tools will help prevent the platform’s users being exposed to child sexual abuse imagery
