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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IWF forward planning date
Published: Tue 8 May 2018
The Internet Watch Foundation, the online child sexual abuse charity, will publish Trends in Online Child Sexual Exploitation: Examining the Distribution of Captures of Live-streamed Child Sexual Abuse on 15 May 2018.
New figures will include:
- Figures on permanent captures and recordings of live-streamed child sexual abuse which have spread across the internet.
- The ages of children in the images and the severity of the abuse.
- Recommendations on how to tackle the issue.
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] or [email protected].
