Sextortion is a form of blackmail in which a child is tricked into sending sexual images of themselves to abusers, who then threaten to share the pictures with friends, family or more widely on the internet if they are not paid money.
Sharing the load brings successes. We see that every day at the IWF – whether that’s working as a team to assess the hundreds of reports we receive of suspected child sexual abuse images, or when we link with the police in the UK and further afield to provide intelligence.
The Internet Watch Foundation says criminal gangs are finding ‘safe havens’ to harbour abuse imagery in EU countries.
Explore how commercial disguised websites conceal child sexual abuse imagery behind legal content, complicating detection and takedown efforts.
Immediate warnings about child sexual abuse images or videos hosted on networks in the United States.
Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images.