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  1. IWF welcomes return of long delayed Online Safety Bill

    Key legislation aimed at preventing online harms will return to Parliament next month following fears it could have been dropped altogether.

  2. Why We Need to Speak with One Voice on Children’s Online Safety

    Parents across the world are calling for clearer, stronger action to keep children safe online.

  3. Woman ‘trusted’ online predator who viewed child sexual abuse on her daughter’s computer

    Experts warn that 1% of the entire male population could be ‘interested in sex with prepubescent children’.

  4. Abusive comments are one of the main causes of upset for young people online

  5. New EU-funded safety tech will help reduce viewing and demand for child sexual abuse images and videos

    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.

  6. 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".

  7. 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.

  8. EU a ‘toxic warehouse’ of child sexual abuse, as lawmakers urged to ‘get a grip’ on spiralling problem

    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.

  9. 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.

  10. IWF sounds alarm for young people and parents as sharing of nudes becomes ‘normalised’ in UK schools

    A new national campaign features suggestive images of fruit, while radio ads feature Cunk on Earth star Diane Morgan.

  11. Samantha Morton delivers heart-felt speech on child sexual abuse at Internet Watch Foundation event

    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.

  12. ‘Appalling’ rise of ‘devious’ criminals tricking children into sexually abusing themselves on camera

    New IWF data reveals a startling increase in ‘self-generated’ material where children have been tricked or groomed by predators.