Published: Fri 25 Apr 2025
There is a rising number of child sexual abuse images hosted in European Union member states, according to an annual report published by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
The latest report showed that 62 per cent of all child sexual abuse material (CSAM) webpages found by IWF in 2024 were traced to an EU country; the Netherlands was the most used location in the world for hosting criminal content, with over 83,000 URLs linked to the country.
Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland were the next four European countries, with all four seeing an increase in the amount of content they host.
Read the full article at Euro News.
In an article in Le Monde, the director of the Internet Watch Foundation, Derek Ray-Hill, warned of the production of child sex abuse images using artificial intelligence and the need to criminalize them.
