The amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse content is “chilling” and reaching a “tipping point”, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.
A specialised taskforce will stop the spread of child sexual abuse images by taking ‘digital fingerprints’ of each picture.
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.
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.”
British adults would consider boycotting online brands which do not do enough to keep their services free of child sexual abuse images and videos.
IWF analyst 'Lucy' spoke to the BBC about her work tracking down and fighting against online child sexual abuse.
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.
The portal gives people in El Salvador a safe, anonymous place to report child sexual abuse material if they accidentally find it online.
A new report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Media.
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.
Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020