In a "world-first", children worried about nude images and videos ending up online against their will, are able to report the material to help prevent it from being uploaded in the future.
The .cc internet domain for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands should be claimed by the Australian government to stop it being abused by scammers and people hosting child abuse websites.
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.”