Each day, a team of analysts faces a seemingly endless mountain of horrors. The team of 21, who work at the Internet Watch Foundation’s office in Cambridgeshire, spend hours trawling through images and videos containing child sexual abuse.
A day in the life of the IWF’s child abuse image taskforce. "They know they are about to witness some of the most upsetting things ever uploaded onto the internet"
Explore IWF's 2024 findings on child sexual abuse imagery hosted in the UK, highlighting removal efforts and the importance of rapid takedown actions.
Quickline joins their nationwide initiative to provide a trusted and secure service to help protect people from exposure to child sexual abuse images online.
“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.