KIDZONET joins the Internet Watch Foundation to strengthen child protection across digital networks

KIDZONET, a child-focused online safety and telecom service platform, has joined the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the international charity based in the UK that works to eliminate child sexual abuse images and videos online.

The platform provides network-based child online protection services for telecom operators, internet service providers, governments and schools. Its solutions help partners deliver safer digital experiences across mobile, home and education settings through infrastructure-level protection that does not rely on app downloads or complex user set-up.

Through IWF membership, KIDZONET will use the IWF URL and NPI URL Lists, which are dynamic lists of webpages that IWF analysts have confirmed contain child sexual abuse images or videos. The service will help KIDZONET strengthen protections across the networks it supports by enabling customers to block access to criminal webpages with greater precision and speed.

The partnership reflects the platform’s commitment to child protection and its belief that safer internet access should be built into the digital services families and organisations use every day. By working with the IWF, KIDZONET is reinforcing that commitment with specialist intelligence designed to disrupt the spread of child sexual abuse material online and help protect children from exposure to it.

Nidal Taha, CEO of KIDZONET, said: “The internet should be a place for learning, creativity and connection, not a gateway to illegal and harmful content. Joining the IWF is a commitment to using the best available intelligence to ensure that child sexual abuse material cannot be accessed through any network we power.

“The IWF sets the global standard in this space, and by integrating their tools and feeds into our technology, we are proud to stand alongside the world’s leading organisations in the fight against the distribution and accessibility of child sexual abuse material, and to put that standard to work across every market we serve.”

The IWF works with the global tech community to find, assess and help remove child sexual abuse images and videos online. Its services support organisations that want to stop this material from appearing on their networks and platforms, while helping reduce the repeated victimisation of the children depicted in the imagery.

It will help the company and its partners act quickly against known criminal webpages, strengthen child safety measures across networks and contribute to a wider ecosystem that puts child protection at the centre of digital services.

Kerry Smith, CEO of IWF, said: “Every piece of child sexual abuse material that remains accessible online represents a continuing harm to a real child. The organisations that step up to block this content at the network level are making a meaningful difference, not just to the numbers, but to the children behind them.

“KIDZONET's commitment to integrating IWF intelligence across its networks means that protection is built into the connection itself, and we are proud to welcome them as a Member in the fight against child sexual abuse material online.”