Discover how Meri Trustline, supported by IWF and RATI Foundation, assists under-18s in India facing online abuse, offering confidential support and resources.
Child protection groups warn there’s nothing to stop imagery sent to Edwards from spreading further on WhatsApp.
Learn how we collect and analyse data for the 2025 Annual Data & Insights Report. Explore our rigorous methodology for identifying online child sexual abuse.
Explore IWF's 2024 methods for analysing reports and imagery, including new dataset tags and Multichild assessments.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and its partners blocked at least 8.8 million attempts by UK internet users to access videos and images of children suffering sexual abuse during lockdown
A specialised taskforce will stop the spread of child sexual abuse images by taking ‘digital fingerprints’ of each picture.
A "pioneering" new partnership between the Internet Watch Foundation and MindGeek will offer a blueprint for how the adult industry can help in the fight against child sexual abuse material online.