The UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) worked with the Comorian government to provide a place people can report online child sexual abuse material.
Sextortion is a form of blackmail in which a child is tricked into sending sexual images of themselves to abusers, who then threaten to share the pictures with friends, family or more widely on the internet if they are not paid money.
SS8 will be allowed to use the IWF’s Hash List in software that is used by law enforcement agencies around the world.
Children aged seven to 10 should be supervised while using the internet amid an “incredibly worrying” rise in sexual abuse material depicting children of those ages, internet safety experts have warned.
The public faces an “escalating risk” of accidental exposure to child sexual abuse online as a “disturbing” new trend rewards criminals for spamming social media with links to illegal material.
New research commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation shows that more than one in 10 British young people have been exposed to online child sexual abuse material
Analysts are finding 15 times as much child sexual abuse material on the internet as they were 10 years ago, leaving them battling a "tidal wave of criminal material".
PIR and IWF announce a new Extended Domain Name System Community Sponsorship - giving registries access to powerful tools to disrupt the distribution of child sexual abuse online.
Local MP Ian Sollom learned about the herculean task faced by analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) who find, assess and remove child sexual abuse material on the internet.
Professionals working with children and young people are being equipped with vital new guidance - developed by the IWF and National Crime Agency - to combat the growing threat of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
A specialised new team will take ‘digital fingerprints’ of millions of images so companies and organisations around the world can spot them and have them removed.