Internet Watch Foundation

Teenagers: The New Front in the Fight Against Online Child Sexual Abuse Images

Susie Hargreaves | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Tech
Susie Hargreaves

For a long while within the IWF we've debated whether it is right for us to engage with teenagers. But the facts speak for themselves - young people under 18 are viewing adult content. Surely if we ignore this, we put them at risk by not providing them with the information they need to report these images?

1.5 Million Internet Users 'Have Stumbled On Images Of Child Abuse'

PA | Posted 18.05.2013 | UK Tech

About 1.5 million adults have stumbled across child pornography while browsing online, an internet watchdog said. A survey by the Internet Watch Fo...

1.5 Million Internet Users 'Have Stumbled On Images Of Child Abuse'

PA | Posted 18.05.2013 | UK Tech

About 1.5 million adults have stumbled across child pornography while browsing online, an internet watchdog said. A survey by the Internet Watch Fo...

A Day Job Looking at Child Sexual Abuse? Why Would You Do It?

Susie Hargreaves | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK
Susie Hargreaves

I want to emphasise the personality of the people who day in, day out look at some of the worst crimes imaginable. Theirs isn't a job that's easy to talk about down the pub on a Friday night but what they do is absolutely essential. It requires supreme attention to detail and a determination to stay committed to the very end of the removal process.

The Worst Content on the Internet is Being Fought – but the Problem Won't go Away Overnight

Susie Hargreaves | Posted 27.12.2011 | UK Tech
Susie Hargreaves

Interviewed recently, Peter Dawe, founder of the IWF, recalled early internet companies were in the mode of "frontiersman". It is true that they were - the internet may be ubiquitous now but then it was a new, uncharted but promising territory.