As Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Codes come into force, platforms are required to implement robust measures to protect users from CSAM and illegal content.
Peter Kyle visited the IWF to see for himself the scale, and severity, of online sexual abuse against children.
Child protection analysts have seen a significant rise in reports from children accessing the world-leading Report Remove service run by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the NSPCC’s Childline service.
Ms Smith, who is currently CEO at Human Rights charity, the Helen Bamber Foundation, takes over from Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill, and will be in post in June.
The Security Institute has named the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) as its charity partner for the year after the child protection group presented at its annual conference in October 2024.
The collaboration will grant the social media platform access to IWF’s world-leading tools and datasets for finding, blocking and removing sexual abuse content of children online.
By Hannah Swirsky, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at IWF
Tighter rules come as IWF warns AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reports have quadrupled in a year.
The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.
Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images.
