IWF analysts say ‘insidious’ commercial child sexual abuse sites are driving more and more extreme content online.
New IWF data shows that three in every five child sexual abuse reports are hosted in an EU member state.
The IWF is urging parents and carers to spot the dangers as a new Government-backed campaign aims to boost child safety.
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The IWF and NSPCC say tech platforms must do more to protect children online as confirmed sextortion cases soar.
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The Internet Watch Foundation and the NSPCC have won an award that recognises the vital service that the Report Remove tool offers children in the UK.
Child protection analysts have seen a significant rise in reports from children accessing the world-leading Report Remove service run by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the NSPCC’s Childline service.
A new IWF portal will, for the first time, give people in Tunisia a safe and anonymous place to report illegal videos and images.
The Kenyan public will now have a safe and anonymous place to report suspected images and videos of children suffering sexual abuse.
A specialised new team will take ‘digital fingerprints’ of millions of images so companies and organisations around the world can spot them and have them removed.
The IWF worked alongside the Ministerio Público o Fiscalía General, (Public Prosecutor’s Office), to set up the portal, with extra support from the Office Against Child trafficking of Guatemala and crucial help from UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime).