A series of shortcasts from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) about their leading non-profit work tackling online child sexual abuse. Our series of short podcasts feature discussions with leading experts and academics covering a wide variety of topics including tech, encryption, policy and how these impact the criminal circulation of child sexual imagery online. Find out more at iwf.org.uk
The future we want for the internet? Child sexual abuse, offenders, and the apps they use to avoid detection.
New research shows online offenders are choosing end-to-end encrypted messaging apps to c…
The increase in self-generated child sexual abuse content is alarming. In 2022, more than three quarters (78%) of the webpages IWF identified as containing child sexual abuse material were tech-enabl…
In Conversation With Thorn’s Head of Data Science Rebecca Portnoff and IWF Chief Technology Officer Dan Sexton.
This episode explores what needs to be done to try and control the explosion in harmful…
As the Online Safety Bill becomes the Online Safety Act, the Internet Watch Foundation looks at what is next.
In this podcast, children’s online safety expert Natalia Greene and IWF Head of Policy and…
Nowhere to Hide is part of the IWF’s In Conversation With series exploring the technological and political issues surrounding the global spread of child sexual abuse material.
This episode looks at …
Our analysts in the Hotline have discovered a disturbing new trend, what they’ve called iCAP sites or “invite child abuse pyramid” sites. These sites encourage users to share links to criminal child …
Protecting children is at the heart of everything we do. Our team of expert analysts do one of the most difficult, yet crucial, jobs in the world - searching for and seeking the removal of online chi…
New data released by the IWF today shows that almost 20,000 webpages identified by our team in the first half of 2022 included 'self-generated' child sexual abuse imagery of 7-to-10-year-old children…
“The introduction of end-to-end encryption technologies has led to a debate around the apparent dichotomy of good child safety and good general user privacy and security,” reads a new report by Dr Ia…