Young children are now more exposed to being groomed online due to a reliance on tech devices in lockdown, a charity has claimed.
Online child sexual abuse is at record high levels, according to exclusive figures given to ITV News.
In a review of material posted on the dark web, the Internet Watch Foundation found that deepfakes featuring children were becoming more extreme.
The tools used to create the images remain legal in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation says, even though AI child sexual abuse images are illegal.
Sexual predators are grooming children under six into performing “disturbing” acts of sexual abuse via phones or webcams a charity has warned.
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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.
Under-18s who want nude pictures or videos of themselves removed from the internet can now report the images through an online tool.
A web tool to help under-18s report intimate photos of themselves has been launched to prevent the images being uploaded and shared online.
Children who are worried that nude pictures and videos may end up online will be able to report the material to help prevent it from being uploaded in the future.
Children in the UK who are worried that nude pictures and videos may end up online will be able to report the material to help prevent it from being uploaded in the future.
In a "world-first", children worried about nude images and videos ending up online against their will, are able to report the material to help prevent it from being uploaded in the future.