IWF News
12 January 2012
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chair and two new Trustees. Sir Richard Tilt is the new Independent Chair alongside Peter Neyroud CBE, QPM and Philip Geering who join the Board as Independent Trustees. All new appointees take up their posts with immediate effect.
02 December 2011
Emma Lowther has been appointed as the new Director of Communications of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). She takes over from Sarah Robertson who joined the organisation in 2005.
14 November 2011
Filesonic is the newest member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). They join over 100 companies from across the world in the fight against online child sexual abuse content.
26 October 2011
Today (26 October) the IWF not only marks its annual Awareness Day, but reflects on its 15 years of tackling online child sexual abuse content.
05 September 2011
Susie Hargreaves today (5 September) starts as Chief Executive of the Internet Watch Foundation.
22 August 2011
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) regularly invites experts from a range of relevant professional backgrounds to carry out an inspection of its Hotline process and staff support mechanisms against external policies with a view to providing independent reassurance to their Members, Government and parties with a particular interest in IWF affairs. On 30th March 2011 a team of experts headed by Commander Allan Gibson (Metropolitan Police Service) conducted such an inspection at the IWF premises.
11 April 2011
A new service for reporting all hate crimes online has been launched by the police. The website, called True Vision, is supported by all forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and can be accessed at www.report-it.org.uk. All reports of incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK previously reported to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should now be reported directly to True Vision.
15 December 2010
Trend Micro, an internet content security company, has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK self-regulatory Hotline for combating criminal online content primarily child sexual abuse images hosted around the world.
