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  1. Call for lawmakers to act quickly as new data shows child sexual abuse reports are soaring in wake of pandemic

    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.

  2. IWF calls for changes to Bill to ensure it does not disrupt current mechanisms for stopping child sexual abuse on the internet

    IWF calls for changes to Bill to ensure it does not disrupt current mechanisms for stopping child sexual abuse on the internet

  3. ‘Worst nightmares’ come true as predators are able to make thousands of new AI images of real child victims

    AI-Generated Child Abuse Sexual Imagery Threatens to “Overwhelm” Internet

  4. IWF urges young people to get help as criminals target younger children in ‘sextortion’ scams

    Tamsin McNally, Hotline Manager at the IWF, appeared live on National BBC Breakfast news to warn about the increasing prevalence of “sextortion” online.

  5. Pixels from a Crime Scene: Woman who was sexually abused as a child ‘sickened’ that images of her abuse may still being shared by predators

  6. Pixels from a Crime Scene: Fears new generation of young British men is driving demand for videos and images of child sexual abuse

  7. How AI is being abused to create child sexual abuse imagery

    IWF research into how artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to create child sexual abuse imagery online

  8. Sexual abuse imagery of girls online at record high following pandemic lockdowns

    New data published by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows girls are at increasing risk online.

  9. ‘Extreme’ Category A child sexual abuse found online doubles in two years

    IWF analysts say ‘insidious’ commercial child sexual abuse sites are driving more and more extreme content online.

  10. EU still hosts the most child sexual abuse material in the world

    New IWF data shows that three in every five child sexual abuse reports are hosted in an EU member state.

  11. How online predators use privacy apps. New podcast episode from the IWF

    A new podcast from the IWF focuses on new research from Finnish child protection agency Suojellaan Lapsia which shows how offenders operate and the methods they use.

  12. ‘It’s a window into the child’s abuse. Thank goodness there is a stop button for us.’ A day in the life of an IWF analyst

    Cambridgeshire mum Lillian* has one of the most unusual and, sometimes, harrowing jobs in the world.