Chris joined the IWF in February 2012. He is responsible for the running of the hotline, which receives inbound reports from all over the world and proactively searches for child sexual abuse material.
Learn how IWF combats sexually coerced extortion, a growing online threat where children are blackmailed using intimate images.
For the first time, people in Madagascar will have a safe and anonymous place to report criminal images and videos of children suffering sexual abuse.
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.
New data reveals AI child sexual abuse continues to spread online as criminals create more realistic, and more extreme, imagery.
Minister praises work to find and remove images and videos of child sexual abuse from the internet, and says new legislation will aim to tackle the issue.
Explore IWF's 2024 findings on child sexual abuse imagery hosted in the UK, highlighting removal efforts and the importance of rapid takedown actions.
Internet Watch Foundation CEO Susie Hargreaves has outlined the IWF and industry response to stepping up the fight against online child sexual abuse images and videos.
Smart Axiata partners with the Internet Watch Foundation to block child sexual abuse content, enhancing online safety and protecting over 7.5 million users from harmful and illegal material.
IWF Chief Executive Susie Hargreaves OBE and Hotline Director Chris Hughes have respectively won awards for inspirational leadership, and for operational impact.
Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images.
Each day, a team of analysts faces a seemingly endless mountain of horrors. The team of 21, who work at the Internet Watch Foundation’s office in Cambridgeshire, spend hours trawling through images and videos containing child sexual abuse.