Innovations in detecting and removing child sexual abuse material have been made possible by a grant from Nominet.
Huw Edwards’ offences highlight how WhatsApp can be abused by predators sharing criminal imagery of children, IWF warns. Dan Sexton, Chief Technology Officer at the IWF, appeared on national BBC Breakfast television this week (September 17) to warn Meta is not taking adequate steps to proactively prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material on the platform.
Dan Sexton joined IWF in February 2021. He is responsible for Information Technology, Cybersecurity and Software Development.
Mr Ray-Hill will lead the IWF through a period of transition and growth while a national recruitment campaign takes place for the permanent CEO.
Our intelligent web crawler uses pioneering technology to scan web pages on the internet searching out images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children so our analysts can work to have them removed.
Public debate around online child sexual abuse material detection is dominated by myths, misunderstandings, and hypotheticals. The truth is that detection technology is built on established safety and security tools that have been embedded across the digital ecosystem for decades.
The Internet Watch Foundation scooped a top prize at the 2023 National Technology Awards.
The principles and procedures under which the child sexual abuse content URL list is made available to members and under licence to specific non-members.
IntelliGrade is helping companies and law enforcement bodies to fight back against criminals who trade, store and upload images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children.
Our IntelliGrade process makes it easier for companies and law enforcement bodies to use those hashes to help make the internet a safer place
Technology companies can use our growing list of IntelliGrade hashes to stop the upload, sharing and storage of known child sexual abuse imagery on their platforms.