
IWF ‘outraged’ at Meta decision to prioritise privacy of paedophiles over children’s safety
Meta announces rollout of end-to-end encryption on its platforms, beginning with Facebook Messenger.
Report suspected online child sexual abuse images or videos here.
Meta announces rollout of end-to-end encryption on its platforms, beginning with Facebook Messenger.
In Conversation With Thorn’s Head of Data Science Rebecca Portnoff and IWF Chief Technology Officer Dan Sexton
Ms Brown will take over from Andrew Puddephatt OBE, who has held the post since 2017.
‘There can be no safe place for these criminals to operate. Children deserve a safer and happier internet.’
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IntelliGrade, from the Internet Watch Foundation, 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.
It's is a powerful new tool that enables our analysts to accurately grade child sexual abuse images and videos, and create hashes (digital fingerprints) that are compatible with child sexual abuse laws and classifications in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Interpol Baseline standard.
The IWF combines the technical know-how with a deep understanding of the human cost of this awful crime. The organisation's work creates scale and impact to tackle this issue, and Google is proud to work so closely with the IWF.