Natalie Dormer joins IWF’s Think Before You Share campaign
Actor and producer Natalie Dormer joins calls to stem ‘epidemic’ of online nudes and sexual imagery of young people
10 April 2026
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Nine reports a week from UK children facing online ‘sextortion’ as charity warns record year just ‘tip of the iceberg’
More under-18s than ever are using Report Remove to self-report nude or sexual imagery of themselves.
7 April 2026
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Tech companies and protection experts call for EU to act now to plug gap in online safety laws
Act now or see ‘fewer children safeguarded, fewer perpetrators held accountable, and offenders re-established on mainstream platforms’, lawmakers warned.
1 April 2026
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‘Dangerous’ AI child sexual abuse reaches record high as public backs clampdown on ‘uncensored’ tools
Analysts observed offenders discuss using hidden cameras to obtain footage of real children to transform into AI videos.
24 March 2026
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Charity urges for ‘zero tolerance’ of ‘dangerous’ AI child sexual abuse in EU as content reaches record high
New report reveals full scale of AI-generated child sexual abuse images and videos and ‘unsettling’ insight into offender views.
24 March 2026
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AI-generated child sexual abuse: now cannot be the moment the EU downs tools
A new IWF report reveals record levels of AI‑generated child sexual abuse imagery and alarming insight into how offenders are exploiting emerging technologies. The charity is urging EU lawmakers to introduce a zero‑tolerance ban on AI‑generated abuse and the tools used to create it.
24 March 2026
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AI-generated child sexual abuse: why safety by design must be the next step
We’re calling for an AI Bill that includes key measures to ensure safety-by-design becomes a non-negotiable standard in AI development.
24 March 2026
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Europe is about to make it illegal to protect children online
The European Parliament has one last chance to save its child protection system.
23 March 2026
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British schoolgirl’s sexual abuse was spread online for years before analyst’s breakthrough - thanks to a school uniform
IWF Analyst recognised the girl ‘straight away’ but warns there are still ‘thousands’ of child victims yet to be identified.
20 March 2026
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EU failure on temporary derogation puts children at risk
The legal protections that allow companies in the EU to voluntarily detect, find, and remove child sexual abuse material on their platforms are about to expire, as legislative negotiations grind to a halt.
17 March 2026
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CipherOwl joins the Internet Watch Foundation to prevent cryptocurrency funded child sexual abuse
CipherOwl has joined the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) as a new Member, bringing blockchain compliance intelligence directly into the global effort to eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet.
13 March 2026
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