New partnership builds connections to prioritise children’s safety online

Glide joins the IWF to help eliminate child sexual abuse material.

28 April 2025 News

Warnings issued as rising amount of child sexual abuse material hosted on websites in EU countries

A rise in child sex abuse material has been linked to websites hosted in EU countries, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

25 April 2025 IWF In The News

Charity raises alarm over surge in level of child sexual abuse imagery hosted in EU

Call for Member States to come together and push forward with ‘desperately needed’ child protection laws as thousands of webpages containing children’s sexual abuse traced back to EU servers.

23 April 2025 News

Teens face ‘crisis’ of online sexual exploitation as charity says major new Government-backed scheme will ‘put rocket boosters’ on Online Safety Act

IWF announces ‘ground-breaking’ decision to give thousands of smaller platforms free protection from millions of child sexual abuse images and videos as new report reveals scale of online threat to children.

23 April 2025 News

UK teen’s sex abuse imagery identified thanks to IWF analysts’ pioneering work with policing database

As teens face a ‘crisis’ of online sexual abuse and exploitation, the IWF looks at why getting imagery of older teens removed can be difficult for some moderators.

23 April 2025 Blog

‘Record levels of web pages hosting child sex abuse imagery discovered in 2024’

The Internet Watch Foundation has announced it will offer a new safety tool to smaller sites for free to help fight online harms.

23 April 2025 IWF In The News

AI images of child sexual abuse getting ‘significantly more realistic’, says watchdog

Internet Watch Foundation report shows 380% increase in illegal AI-generated imagery in 2024, most of it ‘category A’.

23 April 2025 IWF In The News

Peer39 joins with IWF to prevent offenders profiting from the promotion of child sexual abuse content

New collaboration between advertising expert and Internet Watch Foundation will hit criminals in their pockets.

2 April 2025 News

AI giving offenders ‘DIY child sexual abuse’ tool, as dozens of child victims used in AI models, IWF warns MPs

The IWF has welcomed upcoming new legislation while giving evidence in Parliament this week.

28 March 2025 News

IWF and Black Forest Labs join forces to combat harmful AI-generated content

Partnership grants the frontier AI lab access to safety tech tools.

26 March 2025 News

Online Safety Act: UK Tech Companies must now Tackle Illegal Harms including Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

As Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Codes come into force, platforms are required to implement robust measures to protect users from CSAM and illegal content.

17 March 2025 News

Tech Secretary sees ‘heartbreaking’ scale of online abuse on IWF hotline visit as ‘transformational’ online safety rules come into effect

Peter Kyle visited the IWF to see for himself the scale, and severity, of online sexual abuse against children.