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Internet Watch Foundation
Tech companies must not encrypt platforms unless guarantees can be made on child safety, MPs warn
MPs say new legislation will be an opportunity to make the internet a safer place for children, but warn that…
A reporting solution for all
Throughout 2020, IWF worked to launch Reporting Portals across the world in collaboration with partners ranging from government bodies, law enforcement…
IWF campaign launches as new report finds girls at worsening risk of grooming from sexual predators online
A hard-hitting new IWF campaign, a partner in the UK Safer Internet Centre, is warning teenage girls and their parents…
‘Beyond heart-breaking’ abuse as predators groom children to film siblings and friends
A new IWF study indicates internet sex predators are manipulating children to record their own sexual abuse, and that of…
New IWF campaign kicks off to boost internet safety in Uganda and Zambia
A major new campaign kicks off which will see the IWF, along with Facebook and telecommunications giant MTN, boost awareness of its…
IWF launches a new reporting portal in Morocco
A new reporting portal will play a “crucial” role in making Morocco a safer place to go online at a…
‘Grave threat’ to children from predatory internet groomers as online child sexual abuse material soars to record levels
A record number of reports of online child sexual abuse have been processed by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
Eyes of the world very much on Europe' as IWF welcomes progress on child safety measures in Brussels
“We cannot allow Europe to be a safe haven for these criminals who would exploit the worst abuse of vulnerable,…
IWF has record month as public reports of child sexual abuse surge
IWF analysts have seen accelerating numbers of public reports of child sexual abuse, with more people staying and working from…
Game-changing IWF chatbot to target people trying to access child sexual abuse online
The End Violence Fund has announced the funding grant for the new Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reThink chatbot which the charity has…
‘Disturbing’ rise in videos of children who have been groomed into filming their own abuse
Videos and images where children have been manipulated into recording their own abuse now make up nearly half of all…
Hundreds of individual victims in videos of “self-generated” child sexual abuse in one week
In one week alone, analysts saw almost 700 individual girls being exploited and coerced into filming their own abuse. This…