Tech Monitor spoke to the IWF’s chief technology officer Dan Sexton about how his team is developing bespoke software to support the charity’s work.
Call for lawmakers to act quickly as new data shows child sexual abuse reports are soaring in wake of pandemic.
Digital fingerprints of a million images of child sexual abuse have been created, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said.
An internet sex predator has been jailed after grooming victims to abuse themselves, siblings and children, and selling “box sets” of abuse, as the IWF warns footage of his victims’ sexual abuse is still circulating in “dark corners” of the internet.
The IWF is urging parents and carers to spot the dangers as a new Government-backed campaign aims to boost child safety.
The IWF welcomed the new Bill, but said there needs to be greater clarity in how the Bill will be implemented.
Not all Encryption is the same: social media is not ready for End-to-End Encryption. IWF CTO Dan Sexton explains the differences in the technology behind the debate.
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