“Firms must do all they can to keep users, particularly children, safe and to stop any illegal content from spreading on their platforms but the legislation must support them in doing that"
The IWF is calling for greater clarity on online harms as MPs warn new online safety legislation needs to be made more robust to help keep children safe online.
Software developer Fastvue joins forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in the fight to stop sexual abuse content of children online.
ComRes today announced a new partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK hotline for reporting online criminal content.
‘We know viewing images and videos of child sexual abuse is not a victimless crime. Some of the worst abuse is perpetrated against children’.
Initial research findings into the motivations, behaviour and actions of people who view indecent images of children (often referred to as child pornography) online is released today (Thursday, March 28) by the child protection charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF) and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
More people in Britain are concerned about websites showing the sexual abuse of children than other types of illegal, illicit or‘harmful’ internet content. However, more than half of people in Britain currently say that they either wouldn’t know how to report it if they were to encounter it (40%) or would just ignore it (12%).
The Internet Watch Foundation has identified and assisted the removal of 137% more webpages depicting child sexual abuse last year, than the year before.
'This is an important step in ensuring our world-leading expertise can be quickly drawn upon by police and law enforcement the world over.'
Childline and the IWF launch new tool to help young people remove nude images that have been shared online