The Internet Watch Foundation has identified and assisted the removal of 137% more webpages depicting child sexual abuse last year, than the year before.
IWF analysts have seen accelerating numbers of public reports of child sexual abuse, with more people staying and working from home among contributing factors.
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For nine years, Chris Hughes has fought a battle very few people ever see. He oversees a team of 21 analysts in Cambridge who locate, identify and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the internet.
The coronavirus pandemic has lent greater ‘urgency’ to tackling online threats.
People in Senegal will now be able to report child sexual abuse if they stumble across it online.
The IWF is calling for greater clarity on online harms as MPs warn new online safety legislation needs to be made more robust to help keep children safe online.
Software developer Fastvue joins forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in the fight to stop sexual abuse content of children online.
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report.
The Morocco Reporting Portal launched on Safer Internet Day 2021 (9 February), celebrating the international efforts and best practice to make the internet safer for all, and especially for children.
Portal’s relaunch provides vital protection against online child sexual exploitation a year on from the start of the Russian invasion.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) warns of a "shocking" rise of primary school children being coerced into performing sexually online.