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  1. New partnership builds connections to prioritise children’s safety online

    UK internet service provider Glide is aligning with the Internet Watch Foundation to help eliminate child sexual abuse material online

  2. ‘On-demand premium access’ to children’s suffering as gangs reap profits from online sexual exploitation

    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.

  3. Global leaders and AI developers can act now to prioritise child safety

    Hannah Swirsky, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at IWF, sets out why AI is an issue for anyone whose images appear online.

  4. Generative AI Model providers

    Protect your Generative AI Model from the devastating harm caused by online child sexual abuse through corporate membership with the Internet Watch Foundation.

  5. AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse a ‘stark vision of the future’

    A new report from the IWF shows how the pace of AI development has not slowed as offenders are using better, faster and more accessible tools to generate new criminal images and videos.

  6. IWF urges for ‘loophole’ to be closed in proposed EU laws criminalising AI child sexual abuse as synthetic videos make ‘huge leaps’ in sophistication

    New data reveals AI child sexual abuse continues to spread online as criminals create more realistic, and more extreme, imagery.

  7. Prime Minister must act on threat of AI as IWF ‘sounds alarm’ on first confirmed AI-generated images of child sexual abuse

    IWF confirms it has begun to see AI-generated imagery of child sexual abuse being shared online, with some examples being so realistic they would be indistinguishable from real imagery.

  8. AI – the power to harm and to help. New podcast episode from the IWF

    This episode explores what needs to be done to try and control the explosion in harmful AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery.

  9. New partnership aims to protect children online and advance safer digital advertising

    ‘Protected by Mediocean’, a leading solution for holistic ad verification has joined the Internet Watch Foundation to strengthen safeguards in the digital media supply chain and help protect children online.

  10. Children coerced to insert household objects into themselves – including a toothbrush and a recorder – for online predators’ pleasure

  11. Vital EU regulation needed to prevent the coercion of children online into most severe form of sexual abuse, as highlighted by new IWF study

  12. Working internationally & fighting self-generated content