At home she is a loving grandmother who enjoys spending time with her grandkids but at work Mabel has to watch the internet's most "abhorrent" child sex abuse.
On 28 April 2025, the IWF hosted MPs, peers, and staffers in Parliament to discuss the urgent findings of our 2024 Annual Data & Insights Report.
Explore how different website types are exploited to host child sexual abuse imagery, highlighting trends and challenges in online safety efforts.
Chris Hughes, who has worked at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) for nearly nine years, oversees the IWF’s hotline and leads a team of analysts whose job is to assess images and videos of suspected child sexual abuse to help get them removed from the internet.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) welcomes the opportunity the Online Harms White Paper consultation brings and looks forward to helping government and policy makers to shape positive regulation to protect children online.
The IWF is calling for greater clarity on online harms as MPs warn new online safety legislation needs to be made more robust to help keep children safe online.
Michael was 14 when he first went on to the video chat site Omegle. He'd heard about it at school and was intrigued by its notorious reputation for unpredictable and weird encounters.
"Law enforcement cannot arrest its way out of this problem."
New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark, joins the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), to help keep the internet free from child sexual abuse content.
Two years ago, IWF took a conscious and deliberate decision to work with companies which specialise in adult content.