Discover how IWF collaborates globally to eradicate online child sexual abuse, focusing on innovation, partnerships and safeguarding efforts.
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New Internet Watch Foundation data reveals a sharp rise in commercial child sexual abuse websites, with criminal gangs monetising children’s exploitation through subscription models and digital payments. The charity warns of systemic failures across online platforms, financial services and encrypted technologies that allow abuse to flourish. As reports of sexual extortion surge, particularly targeting boys, the IWF calls for stronger regulation of payment systems, encryption safeguards and decisive government action to disrupt the online economy of child sexual exploitation.
Swedish behavioural detection company Tuteliq has joined the IWF as a Member, bringing technology that identifies grooming, coercion and exploitation by analysing how conversations evolve over time - spotting predatory patterns before a child is harmed, across text, voice, image and video in 27 languages. Tuteliq will incorporate the IWF's URL List and Image Hash List into its detection pipeline and draw on IWF research and policy expertise to keep pace with evolving threats, in a partnership both organisations say strengthens the multi-layered approach needed to stop children slipping through the gaps online.
IWF CEO Kerry Smith calls for complete EU ban of AI abuse content at high-level meeting of global experts in Rome
A new IWF report reveals record levels of AI‑generated child sexual abuse imagery and alarming insight into how offenders are exploiting emerging technologies. The charity is urging EU lawmakers to introduce a zero‑tolerance ban on AI‑generated abuse and the tools used to create it.
The IWF’s latest AI report exposes rapidly escalating harms to children as the EU moves to scale back the tools that detect and remove child sexual abuse material online. The charity warns that the EU must act urgently to criminalise AI‑generated abuse and preserve essential detection systems before risks intensify further.
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Speaking at the state opening of Parliament, the Queen said the UK will lead the way in making sure the internet is safe for all.