The Internet Watch Foundation scooped a top prize at the 2023 National Technology Awards.
IWF has been named Not for Profit of the Year at the British Data Awards 2022.
The Internet Watch Foundation and the NSPCC have won an award that recognises the vital service that the Report Remove tool offers children in the UK.
Chris Hughes, who has worked at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) for nearly nine years, oversees the IWF’s hotline and leads a team of analysts whose job is to assess images and videos of suspected child sexual abuse to help get them removed from the internet.
Our intelligent web crawler uses pioneering technology to scan web pages on the internet searching out images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children so our analysts can work to have them removed.
Innovations in detecting and removing child sexual abuse material have been made possible by a grant from Nominet.
Pioneering technology from the Internet Watch Foundation to help the internet community rid the internet of child sexual abuse imagery.
The principles and procedures under which the child sexual abuse content URL list is made available to members and under licence to specific non-members.
IntelliGrade is helping companies and law enforcement bodies to fight back against criminals who trade, store and upload images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children.
Our IntelliGrade process makes it easier for companies and law enforcement bodies to use those hashes to help make the internet a safer place
Technology companies can use our growing list of IntelliGrade hashes to stop the upload, sharing and storage of known child sexual abuse imagery on their platforms.