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  1. Supervise 7-to-10 year-olds online to protect against predators, warn child safety experts

    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.

  2. Public warned as ‘disturbing’ new trend risks exposure to child sexual abuse material online

    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.

  3. More than one in 10 British young people exposed to online child sexual abuse

    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

  4. Online child sexual abuse: The EU has a choice. Not between privacy and protection, but between indifference and compassion

    The debate on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) has been dominated by one loud slogan. A slogan which may have dire consequences for the safety and wellbeing of millions of children worldwide.

  5. Analysts find 15 times as much child sexual abuse material on web as a decade ago

    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".

  6. “Trailblazing” partnership takes aim at criminals profiting from child sexual abuse online

    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.

  7. MP visits charity on the front line of the fight against child sexual abuse on the internet

    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.

  8. Professionals working with children given ‘vital guidance’ to tackle threat of AI-generated child sexual abuse 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.

  9. CipherOwl joins the Internet Watch Foundation to prevent cryptocurrency funded child sexual abuse

    CipherOwl has joined the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) as a new Member, bringing blockchain compliance intelligence directly into the global effort to eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet.

  10. Europe in ‘last chance saloon’ as new paper shows child sexual abuse can be blocked before being shared in E2EE services

    IWF paper sets out how end-to-end encrypted messaging can be protected from child sexual abuse without breaking encryption.

  11. Pixels from a Crime Scene: Woman who was sexually abused as a child ‘sickened’ that images of her abuse may still being shared by predators

  12. Taskforce will stop millions of the most severe child sexual abuse images and videos being shared online

    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.