Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

We thrive upon our partnerships with other charities and non-profit organisations around the world. 🌎 Together we work to protect survivors of child sexual abuse from repeated victimisation and help make the internet safer for everyone. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eqDcV-Vu.

IWF are the biggest Hotline in Europe. Globally, We provide a safe space for over 2.6billion people to report suspected child sexual abuse material online. 🌎 If you stumble across this heinous content, don't ignore it, report it to us at www.iwf.org.uk/report/ and help us remove this content for good.

"These are some of the worst kinds of situations you can think of..." Our Hotline Manager Tamsin McNally explains to BBC Radio 4 how offenders use AI tools to create horrifying sexual abuse content of real children. Listen from 54:43.

A man has been jailed for 18 years after using AI tools to create sexual abuse imagery from pictures of real children. Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Hotline Director Chris Hughes speaks to Zoe Kleinman about the landmark sentencing.

Our Think Before You Share campaign aims to help young people understand the harm of sharing explicit images and videos of themselves, and others, and encourage parents and educators to start timely conversations with children and young people. Help us spread the word and share with your networks. thinkbeforeyoushare.org #ThinkBeforeYouShare #AwarenessCampaign #YoungPeople #Parents #Carers #Educators

Our piece about the rising problem of #Al child abuse images. In a landmark case, 27-year-old Hugh Nelson has been jailed for 18 years after creating and selling Al child abuse images from real images of children. We went to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) where dozens of analysts scour the internet every day to remove these images. They say that in the last six months they’ve seen more child abuse images made using AI then they saw in the whole of last year. With Mickey Carroll 👇

Our CTO Dan S. and one of our analysts Jeff, talk about the rise of #AI child sexual abuse material and how convincing this imagery is becoming. "Our work has always been difficult anyway. [But] we've never had to deal with the possibility that someone could download some software on their computer and create an infinite amount of new images. "They use as many as they can until the hard drives fill up. That's a new type of harm that we have not been prepared for," said our CTO Dan. Watch the full Sky News piece below.

Our Interim CEO, Derek Ray-Hill, said: “Technology is now enabling previously unthought of violations of innocent children. "We are discovering more and more synthetic and AI images of child sexual abuse and they can be disturbingly life-like. “That Nelson profited from making this material to order after clients sent him images to manipulate is on another horrifying level. "I hope this drives home the message. This material, even synthetic versions of it, is criminal. If you make or possess it, you are breaking the law." Read the full article below.

IWF seeks an experienced evaluator to assess global portals for reporting of child sexual abuse. Our reporting portals offer a safe and anonymous reporting mechanism for over 2.7 billion people in more than 54 countries. Read more on our open call for an evaluator of our reporting portals here. https://lnkd.in/e3CDHb87

Our Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill, said "His offences remind us this sort of abuse costs young lives. And the Child Sexual Abuse Material may linger online to haunt his victims over and over again until it is finally removed. “Over the last decade, the IWF has seen offences like this skyrocket. Offenders like McCartney can now contact children and force them into the most appalling sexual abuse – all without needing to ever be in the same room. "The internet is an open door to our children’s bedrooms through which criminals like McCartney can gain access." Read more here.