The IWF has had another record year in the number of reports processed and removed from the internet of child sexual abuse. [...] It is the view of the Internet Watch Foundation that Ofcom should be focussed on delivering the improvements promised in the Online Safety Act and that whilst any further measures on smartphone use and social media are welcome, it should not be seen by industry as an opportunity to delay implementing the measures Ofcom are proposing in their guidance. [...] We have welcomed proposals by Ofcom to mandate the use of Hash Matching, Webpage blocking of known child sexual abuse material and the 10 safety by design grooming mitigations, but in our response, we have recommended Ofcom go further by: • Updating its illegal content codes to include the detection of new child sexual abuse material using automated content classifiers as is current industry best. [...] Whilst we believe the first objective should be implementing the existing legislation, we also believe that on device protections and advice and age verification at the point of sale are a sensible way of building on existing legislation as part of a “layered” approach to online safety. [...] Children having a voice in the process to help design the rules of the road for technology companies.
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- Briefing from the Internet Watch Foundation Impact of smartphones and social media on children 1
- 392665 reports confirmed 275652 1
- Key Asks 1
- 1. To ensure that there is no delay in implementing the Online Safety Act 2. Any measures around stronger protections on devices are welcome but must be 1
- 3. To ask that measures around device level protections consider what could be 1
- 4. That MPs campaign for the five-point plan published by the All-Party 1
- Parliamentary Group on Online Safety on Social Media. 1
- 44 38 3
- 1. A Greater awareness of the Online Safety Act in schools. 2. Children having a voice in the process to help design the rules of the road for 3
- 3. Telecoms providers and device manufacturers verifying the ages of their users and 3
- 4. The Department for Education reviews its Keeping Children Safe in Education 3
- Guidance 3
- 5. Children should have age-appropriate experiences. Ofcom should consider age 3
- Meta is wilfully turning a blind eye to child sexual abuse 4
- Techniques that could be deployed to tackle child sexual abuse in E2EE environments 4
- 36 million tips were sent to NCMEC from electronic service providers. 4
- 17.8 million Facebook services 11.4 million Instagram. 4
