A guide for parents and carers from the Internet Watch Foundation and our partners at the Home Office. Available in English and Welsh.
Epoch Payment Solutions joins IWF membership this May to support their efforts to curtail the availability of commercial child abuse imagery.
How the IWF works with the EU on policy to make children safer online.
The most extreme child sexual abuse imagery hosted in the EU is “spiralling out of control” as lawmakers are urged to clamp down on criminals using the continent as a toxic warehouse for dangerous material.
IWF used to receive some funding from the European Union’s EU Safer Internet Programme. This is now provided by Nominet.
EU countries urged to have ‘courage’ and push for better laws to protect children at IWF’s annual report launch in Brussels
The EU ePrivacy derogation has lapsed, leaving children vulnerable. We must restore legal certainty for CSAM detection. Protecting children is not a threat to privacy; it is a fundamental human right.
The IWF warns that the EU’s failure to extend the temporary derogation will force platforms to halt proactive detection of child sexual abuse, putting children at serious risk.