Call for nudity-detection tech on phones as number of under-18s reporting blackmail attempts rises by 34%.
Experts warn lapse in online safety regulation in the EU could sharply reduce reports of child sexual abuse, echoing a 58% drop during a similar legal gap in 2021.
Criminals are manipulating pictures found on school websites and social media to create sexually explicit images and blackmail UK schools.
National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material online.
The numbers are staggering, but experts say what we’re seeing is only the beginning. As AI-generated child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, surges to record levels, researchers warn that the technology isn’t just producing more harmful content, but it’s fundamentally changing how children are targeted; how survivors are revictimized; and how investigators are overwhelmed.
CSAM hosting around the world rose 64 percent last year, and a surge in the United States put it second behind the Netherlands, a new report found.
Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report.
Europe’s largest hotline, the Internet Watch Foundation, is using this year’s Safer Internet Day to urge the European Commission to bring forward long awaited legislation to address the growing threat to children online.
IWF calls for changes to Bill to ensure it does not disrupt current mechanisms for stopping child sexual abuse on the internet
A new flood of child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence is hitting a tipping point of realism, threatening to overwhelm the authorities. Over the past two years, new AI technologies have made it easier for criminals to create explicit images and videos of children. Now, researchers at organizations including the Internet Watch Foundation and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are warning of a surge of new material this year that is nearly indistinguishable from actual abuse.
Gethin and Nikki discuss the devastating impact of sextortion scams targeting teenagers.