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Record amount of online child abuse blocked, safety group says

More online child sexual abuse material is being blocked by tech firms than ever before, The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said. The online safety group helps platforms find and take down web pages and addresses housing child abuse content. It ...

10 Nov 2022 at 01:01

Children being coerced into most severe forms of sexual abuse online – report

Children as young as seven are being coerced by abusers into filming themselves carrying out the most severe forms of child sexual abuse material, a charity has warned as it urged the Government to return the Online Safety Bill to Parliament. ...

18 Nov 2022 at 01:01

AI being used to create child abuse imagery, watchdog warns

Thousands of AI-generated images depicting real victims of child sexual abuse threaten to “overwhelm” the internet, a watchdog has warned. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK organisation responsible for detecting and removing child ...

25 Oct 2023 at 00:01

Man who created computer-generated child abuse images jailed for 18 years

A shy and socially isolated man who “desperately wanted validation” when he created computer-generated indecent images of children to sell to other paedophiles has been jailed for 18 years. Hugh Nelson, 27, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, ...

28 Oct 2024 at 15:03

Webpages showing children sexually abusing themselves ‘up 1,000% since 2019’

There has been a 1,000% increase in webpages showing self-generated sexual abuse imagery of primary school children since 2019, a safety group has said. The Internet Watch Foundation said it has seen a 1,058% increase in the number of ...

27 Jan 2023 at 08:24

Number of webpages containing most extreme child sex abuse doubles

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. As children ...

25 Apr 2023 at 00:01

Tech firms vow to tackle ‘shocking’ AI-generated child sex abuse images

Tech giants including TikTok and Snapchat have signed a pledge vowing to tackle the spread of artificially generated images of child sex abuse. Home Secretary Suella Braverman hosted the companies, as well as charities, ...

30 Oct 2023 at 16:59

Children as young as three ‘coerced into sexual abuse acts online’

Children as young as three are being manipulated into acts sexual abuse, with the images and videos now being found on the open internet, a new report says. The latest study from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) ...

23 Apr 2024 at 00:01

‘Shocking’ rise in number of children falling victim to sextortion, charity says

A “shocking” rise in the number of children being tricked into sending sexual images of themselves to abusers who then threaten to share the pictures more widely has taken place this year, a charity has said. The ...

18 Sept 2023 at 13:00

New online safety app ‘could lower demand for child sexual abuse content’

A new online safety app that could help reduce the viewing and demand for child sexual abuse content is to be developed by EU and UK experts. Project Protech will launch in March to create an app called Salus – ...

23 Feb 2023 at 00:01

Yvette Cooper launches crackdown on AI child sex abuse images

The Government is launching a crackdown on AI-generated images of child sexual abuse. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced the UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own ...

01 Feb 2025 at 22:00

Rising number of self-generated child sexual abuse images online reported

Nearly 20,000 webpages of child sexual abuse imagery found in the first half of this year included self-generated content of children aged between seven and 10 years old, the Internet Watch ...

09 Aug 2022 at 01:01

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