Telegram ignored outreach from child safety watchdogs before CEO's arrest, groups say
Telegram’s CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
Published: Tue 22 Jun 2021
Written by: i News
A web tool to help under-18s report intimate photos of themselves has been launched to prevent the images being uploaded and shared online.
The world-first Report Remove tool is designed to help young people report images and videos both before and after they’ve been uploaded to the internet.
It has been developed by the child internet safety charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the NSPCC’s Childline.
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