Last year was the “most extreme year on record” for child sexual abuse online, UK based charity Internet Watch Foundation warned.
A trial project has demonstrated a first-of-its-kind chatbot and warning message can reduce the number of online searches that may potentially be indicative of intent to find sexual images of children.
Childline and the IWF launch new tool to help young people remove nude images that have been shared online
The processes IWF use to assess child sexual abuse imagery online and have it removed from the internet.
A unique list of words, phrases, and codes offenders may use to conceal child sexual abuse imagery on legitimate networks and platforms.
More people in Britain are concerned about websites showing the sexual abuse of children than other types of illegal, illicit or‘harmful’ internet content. However, more than half of people in Britain currently say that they either wouldn’t know how to report it if they were to encounter it (40%) or would just ignore it (12%).
'They have acknowledged that, while customers’ privacy must be respected and protected, it cannot be at the expense of children’s safety.'
New pilot shows way for smaller platforms to play big part in online safety.