The Internet Watch Foundation assessed more than 50,000 reports to its hotline during 2013. Today (7 April) it reveals the latest trends in assessing and removing child sexual abuse images from the internet.
New IWF data shows that three in every five child sexual abuse reports are hosted in an EU member state.
IWF analysts say ‘insidious’ commercial child sexual abuse sites are driving more and more extreme content online.
Call for lawmakers to act quickly as new data shows child sexual abuse reports are soaring in wake of pandemic.
The IWF will provide hashes of child sexual abuse images to the online industry to speed up the identification and removal of this content worldwide.
The Internet Watch Foundation welcomes the Government’s commitment to ‘upgrade’ a database in a bid to tackle online child sexual abuse material.
Dan explains the vital role the proposal could have in preventing the widespread sexual abuse, rape, and sexual torture of child victims online.
The Internet Watch Foundation and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation are embarking on a project to understand sex offenders’ internet habits when viewing online child sexual abuse material. The study is possible thanks to a grant from the International Foundation For Online Responsibility (IFFOR).
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.
IWF analysts have seen accelerating numbers of public reports of child sexual abuse, with more people staying and working from home among contributing factors.
The Internet Watch Foundation has identified and assisted the removal of 137% more webpages depicting child sexual abuse last year, than the year before.
Quickline joins their nationwide initiative to provide a trusted and secure service to help protect people from exposure to child sexual abuse images online.