As online child sexual abuse soars, we urge companies to bring in additional child protection measures if they intend to fully encrypt their platforms.
Epoch Payment Solutions joins IWF membership this May to support their efforts to curtail the availability of commercial child abuse imagery.
How the IWF works with the EU on policy to make children safer online. Includes Policy Briefs and Consultations.
The most extreme child sexual abuse imagery hosted in the EU is “spiralling out of control” as lawmakers are urged to clamp down on criminals using the continent as a toxic warehouse for dangerous material.
IWF used to receive some funding from the European Union’s EU Safer Internet Programme. This is now provided by Nominet.
The Internet Watch Foundation is joining ECLAG coalition partners in a statement urging EU policymakers ‘to not fail children, victims and survivors and adopt ambitious measures to effectively protect children from sexual abuse and grooming.’
New IWF data shows that three in every five child sexual abuse reports are hosted in an EU member state.