Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report.
An internet sex predator has been jailed after grooming victims to abuse themselves, siblings and children, and selling “box sets” of abuse, as the IWF warns footage of his victims’ sexual abuse is still circulating in “dark corners” of the internet.
The IWF is urging parents and carers to spot the dangers as a new Government-backed campaign aims to boost child safety.
The IWF welcomed the new Bill, but said there needs to be greater clarity in how the Bill will be implemented.
Not all Encryption is the same: social media is not ready for End-to-End Encryption. IWF CTO Dan Sexton explains the differences in the technology behind the debate.
The US now hosts more child sexual abuse material online than any other country
Jordan King, reporter for Metro, looks at IWF transcripts showing actual conversations between online groomers and child victims
Senior writer at WIRED, Matt Burgess, looks into Pornhub trialling a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behaviour
Europe’s largest hotline, the Internet Watch Foundation, is using this year’s Safer Internet Day to urge the European Commission to bring forward long awaited legislation to address the growing threat to children online.
IWF calls for changes to Bill to ensure it does not disrupt current mechanisms for stopping child sexual abuse on the internet
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has hashed more than a million images in a ‘major boost’ to internet safety.