“Imagine your darkest moments exposed to an unknown number of people. Then imagine strangers watching your pain for sexual satisfaction. That’s what happens for some of the children whose abuse images we see online."
Websites offering cryptocurrency payment for child sexual abuse images ‘doubling every year'
German .de domain ‘ruthlessly’ targeted by criminal gangs profiting from the sale of child sexual abuse images and videos
IWF Technical Projects Officer, Harriet Lester, discusses working on the IWF Hash List and how the new technology will, she believes, have a significant impact on fighting online child sexual abuse images.
AI-Generated Child Abuse Sexual Imagery Threatens to “Overwhelm” Internet
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has hashed more than a million images in a ‘major boost’ to internet safety.
Internet Watch Foundation sees the most extreme year on record in 2023 Annual Report and calls for immediate action to protect very young children online.
Digital fingerprints of a million images of child sexual abuse have been created, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said.
We have a powerful sense of mission, with clarity, focus and purpose to our work. Our one single task – beyond all else – is the elimination of child sexual abuse material online.
Explore how ICAP sites use pyramid-style schemes to distribute child sexual abuse material, increasing public exposure and aiding criminal profits.