IWF analysts have seen accelerating numbers of public reports of child sexual abuse, with more people staying and working from home among contributing factors.
Discover how IWF's Hash List uses unique digital fingerprints to help tech companies and law enforcement block known child sexual abuse imagery online.
Phased implementation of the IWF Hash List, nets nearly 19,000 child sexual abuse images.
On Wednesday (23 September) myself and the IWF team welcomed Rosalba Ceravolo from Telefono Azzurro into our office to better understand how our two hotlines tackle child sexual abuse online content.
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.
ECLAG high-level event on March 20 in Brussels will discuss what vital new EU legislation needs in order to be effective.
The findings will be ‘invaluable’ in turning the tide on the threat children are facing from online predators.