The IWF and NSPCC say tech platforms must do more to protect children online as confirmed sextortion cases soar.
Advice for children, young people, adults and parents or carers on Sexually Coerced Extortion or 'Sextortion'.
We worked in partnership with Safe Online and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation to develop an innovative new chatbot to intervene and stop people looking at child sexual abuse imagery online before they’ve committed a crime.
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Elliptic, a global leader in digital asset decisioning, has partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to strengthen efforts in preventing the financing of child sexual abuse images and videos through cryptocurrencies and blockchain infrastructure.
Isobel has been working throughout lockdown. With her colleagues in the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analyst room in Cambridge she has been responding to a rising number of tipoffs from the public that child abuse images are circulating online. The work is gruelling.
The girl sent a photo to a boy in her class before the image and her phone number were added to all-male online chat groups - she later started disappearing before being abused by "unknown men".
Children in the UK who are worried that nude pictures and videos may end up online will be able to report the material to help prevent it from being uploaded in the future.
A unique list of words, phrases, and codes offenders may use to conceal child sexual abuse imagery on legitimate networks and platforms.