German .de domain ‘ruthlessly’ targeted by criminal gangs profiting from the sale of child sexual abuse images and videos
Websites offering cryptocurrency payment for child sexual abuse images ‘doubling every year'
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
Cambridgeshire mum Lillian* has one of the most unusual and, sometimes, harrowing jobs in the world.
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.
Experts said a ‘frightening’ advancement of AI-generated technology has seen AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery surge over the past year.
We would not expect children to protect themselves from sexual abuse in schools, clubs or youth organisations so why would we adopt such an approach online?
More than nine in ten people in the UK say they are concerned at how images and videos of children being sexually abused are shared through end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging services.
In a new podcast released by the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity says introducing end-to-end encryption to messaging apps could hinder the detection and removal of child sexual abuse material from the internet.