A specialised taskforce will stop the spread of child sexual abuse images by taking ‘digital fingerprints’ of each picture.
For nine years, Chris Hughes has fought a battle very few people ever see. He oversees a team of 21 analysts in Cambridge who locate, identify and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the internet.
I worry about my 12-year-old daughter being approached by online predators. What’s the best way to talk to her about it?
When Chris Hughes started removing child abuse images and videos from the internet, almost a decade ago, paedophiles were not discreet.
Girls aged between 11 and 13 are more at risk of being groomed by sexual predators on the internet than ever before, new figures show.
Online sexual predators are increasingly coercing young girls into filming their own sexual abuse, internet safety experts have warned.
Michael was 14 when he first went on to the video chat site Omegle. He'd heard about it at school and was intrigued by its notorious reputation for unpredictable and weird encounters.
A YOUNG girl, aged between 11 and 13, playfully picks up her little sister and holds her naked body up to the camera.
Criminals and paedophiles are trying to groom and exploit young siblings as part of an emerging trend of online sexual abuse, experts have warned.
Predators are often early adopters of technology,” says Sarah Smith, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK child abuse hotline. “It’s an arms race, we have to be constantly horizon-scanning.”
With cuddly toys scattered around her, schoolgirl Becky fixes her eyes on the screen in front of her as she's directed to perform a series of sickening sexual acts by vile paedophiles.
Isobel has been working throughout lockdown. With her colleagues in the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analyst room in Cambridge she has been responding to a rising number of tipoffs from the public that child abuse images are circulating online. The work is gruelling.