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.
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."
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.
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