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  1. 'There is a real child in every image, and every image is a crime scene': An analyst's story

    IWF analyst 'Lucy' spoke to the BBC about her work tracking down and fighting against online child sexual abuse.

  2. Consumer habits influenced by online companies’ morals

    British adults would consider boycotting online brands which do not do enough to keep their services free of child sexual abuse images and videos.

  3. 'It’s an arms race’: the tech teams trying to outpace paedophiles online

    Predators are often early adopters of technology,” says Sarah Smith, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK child abuse hotline. “It’s an arms race, we have to be constantly horizon-scanning.”

  4. Government in El Salvador ‘committed to keeping children safe online’ as new portal launches

    The portal gives people in El Salvador a safe, anonymous place to report child sexual abuse material if they accidentally find it online.

  5. IWF hosts Italian Hotline to share best practice thanks to INHOPE programme

    On Wednesday (23 September) myself and the IWF team welcomed Rosalba Ceravolo from Telefono Azzurro into our office to better understand how our two hotlines tackle child sexual abuse online content.

  6. African Partnership to End Violence Against Children

    The IWF and The African Partnership to End Violence Against Children worked together to raise awareness about online and offline child sexual abuse.

  7. Tech companies must not encrypt platforms unless guarantees can be made on child safety, MPs warn

    A new report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Media.

  8. Australia urged to take control of Cocos .cc internet domain to foil scammers and child abuse sites

    The .cc internet domain for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands should be claimed by the Australian government to stop it being abused by scammers and people hosting child abuse websites.

  9. One in five child abuse images found online last year were category A – report

    Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020

  10. Sexual abuse imagery of primary school children 1,000 per cent worse since lockdown

    IWF warns full effects of lockdown are only now becoming apparent as younger children are groomed into sexual abuse online.

  11. Telegram plans child abuse crackdown following Pavel Durov’s arrest in Paris

    Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation.

  12. Charity finds more than 500,000 child abuse victims

    An analyst who removes child sexual abuse content from the internet says she is always trying to stay "one step ahead" of the "bad guys".