Key legislation aimed at preventing online harms will return to Parliament next month following fears it could have been dropped altogether.
Experts warn that 1% of the entire male population could be ‘interested in sex with prepubescent children’.
A new national campaign features suggestive images of fruit, while radio ads feature Cunk on Earth star Diane Morgan.
A unique safety tech tool which uses machine learning in real-time to detect child sexual abuse images and videos is to be developed by a collaboration of EU and UK experts.
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".
The most extreme child sexual abuse imagery hosted in the EU is “spiralling out of control” as lawmakers are urged to clamp down on criminals using the continent as a toxic warehouse for dangerous material.
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.
New IWF data reveals a startling increase in ‘self-generated’ material where children have been tricked or groomed by predators.
Hollywood actor Samantha Morton spoke movingly at an event for the Internet Watch Foundation on Tuesday night, where she called on the Government to take steps to better protect children online.
Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Julius Maada Bio “applauds” the launch, saying it is an “unprecedented collaboration in our preparedness to end internet sexual and other crimes against children.”
Online sexual predators are increasingly coercing young girls into filming their own sexual abuse, internet safety experts have warned.