We are very proud to announce the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) received a special commendation at the 2013 ISPA Awards. The IWF was shortlisted in the Internet Safety and Security category for its work in combating online child sexual abuse images and videos and was highly commended for the role in making the internet a safer place.
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.
Chris Hughes, who has worked at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) for nearly nine years, oversees the IWF’s hotline and leads a team of analysts whose job is to assess images and videos of suspected child sexual abuse to help get them removed from the internet.
In 2013 David Cameron declared a crackdown on child abuse images online, calling for the internet industry to ‘obliterate’ such content from the internet.
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Hyperslice has joined the IWF.