New AI child sexual abuse laws announced following IWF campaign
Tighter rules come as IWF warns AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reports have quadrupled in a year.
2 February 2025
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Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) forward planning date
Published: Mon 9 Apr 2018
The Internet Watch Foundation, the online child sexual abuse charity, will publish its 2017 Annual Report on 18 April 2018.
New figures will include:
- The latest number of confirmed reports of online child sexual abuse imagery.
- Trends of where this content is being hosted in the world.
- The ages of children in the images and the severity of the abuse.
- The use of technology by offenders to evade detection.
A strictly embargoed press release will be available to media in advance of the launch. To be included on the IWF’s media list, please contact [email protected].
