EU countries urged to have ‘courage’ and push for better laws to protect children at IWF’s annual report launch in Brussels
After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Telegram’s CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
Our intelligent web crawler uses pioneering technology to scan web pages on the internet searching out images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children so our analysts can work to have them removed.
IWF signs open letter applauding LIBE Committee’s report and supports calls for amendments that will more concretely ensure child safety online.
A Europe-wide coalition of survivors, young people and child protection organisations took to the streets in hazmat suits calling on EU leaders to ‘clean up the internet’
Jordan King, reporter for Metro, looks at IWF transcripts showing actual conversations between online groomers and child victims
“Anything which weakens protections for children is unacceptable. Christmas is supposed to be a time where we look out for the youngest and most vulnerable. It is not the time to give predators a free pass to share videos of abuse and rape"