To highlight the growing threat of child sexual abuse online, referencing the latest statistics published by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). [...] About the Internet Watch Foundation The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is the official UK hotline for assessing and removing child sexual abuse material from the internet. [...] The IWF works closely in partnership with the internet industry, law enforcement, and governments globally to stop the repeated victimisation of people abused in childhood and make the internet a safer place, by detecting, removing and blocking illegal online child sexual abuse imagery. [...] The scale of online child sexual abuse To give you an idea of the scale of the problem, last year the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) assessed over 390,000 reports and confirmed over 275,000 web pages containing images or videos of children suffering sexual abuse, with each page containing hundreds, if not thousands, of indecent images of children. [...] In the first six months of the year alone, reports of child sexual abuse linked to sexual extortion increased by 19% compared to the same period in 2023.
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- Westminster Hall Debate Tuesday 29 October 2024 Online Safety for Children and Young People 1
- About the Internet Watch Foundation 1
- The Internet Watch Foundation IWF is the official UK hotline for assessing and removing child sexual abuse material from the internet. 1
- The scale of online child sexual abuse 1
- To give you an idea of the scale of the problem last year the Internet Watch Foundation IWF 1
- Key Asks 1
- 1. To highlight the growing threat of child sexual abuse online referencing the 1
- 2. Ensure that child sexual abuse laws are updated in line with emerging harms 1
- 3. To advocate for ambitious effective regulation of the Online Safety Act and to 1
- AI-generated child sexual abuse material 2
- In October 2023 2
- Since then the issue has escalated and continues to evolve. . Almost all of the content 99 was found on publicly available areas of the internet and was not hidden on the dark web. 2
- In the past six months alone analysts at IWF have seen a 6 increase in confirmed reports containing AI- generated child sexual abuse material compared with the preceding 12 months 2
- Next steps and solutions 2
- Further action by Government is also needed to tackle the escalating crisis of child sexual abuse online. Key measures should include 2
- Preventing the distribution of AI-generated abuse imagery 2
- Ensuring that all online platforms proactively detect for child sexual abuse 2
- Ensuring that appropriate effective age verification is in place to ensure that 2
- Addressing the rise of sexually coerced extortion or sextortion 2
- For more information about this briefing please contact 2
- Hannah Swirsky Head of Policy and Public Affairs Internet Watch Foundation IWF 2
