The popular teenage question and answer social network, ask.fm, has taken a big step in the fight for child safety by becoming the latest organisation to join the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
Today (18 November 2013) the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) attended a summit hosted by the Prime Minister to discuss the fight against online child sexual abuse content.
Internet Watch Foundation CEO Susie Hargreaves has outlined the IWF and industry response to stepping up the fight against online child sexual abuse images and videos.
Purple WiFi has become a member of Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in order that users accessing one of its Purple Wifi hotspots are prevented from stumbling across known images and videos of child sexual abuse.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) supports an amendment to the Online Safety Bill which will demand the development of new technologies to better detect child sexual abuse material online.
New data released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows almost 20,000 webpages of child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2022 included ‘self-generated’ content of 7- to 10-year-old children.
New research commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation shows that more than one in 10 British young people have been exposed to online child sexual abuse material
A "pioneering" new partnership between the Internet Watch Foundation and MindGeek will offer a blueprint for how the adult industry can help in the fight against child sexual abuse material online.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) welcomes the opportunity the Online Harms White Paper consultation brings and looks forward to helping government and policy makers to shape positive regulation to protect children online.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) welcomes today’s report from the House of Lords’ Communications Committee and the 10 principles it recommends to help shape the digital world of the future.
Predators are often early adopters of technology,” says Sarah Smith, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK child abuse hotline. “It’s an arms race, we have to be constantly horizon-scanning.”
Analysts are finding 15 times as much child sexual abuse material on the internet as they were 10 years ago, leaving them battling a "tidal wave of criminal material".