The Internet Watch Foundation says it is finding more images of child sexual abuse online than ever before, according to its annual report.
It found over 78,000 website addresses containing child sexual abuse in 2017, up from more than 57,000 in 2016.
The charity actively seeks and removes these images from the net as well as responding to reports it receives from the public.
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Child abuse images increasingly hidden on adult pornography sites
There has been a sharp rise in paedophiles and organised criminals hiding child abuse images on apparently legal commercial adult pornography websites, the Internet Watch Foundation has warned.
In the past year the number of such disguised websites, which provide a secret route to child sexual abuse content, had risen by 86%, said Fred Langford, the chief executive of the UK charity. The IWF uncovered 2,909 such websites in 2017, compared with 1,572 in 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/18/child-abuse-images-increasingly-hidden-on-adult-pornography-sites
IWF global figures show online child sexual abuse imagery up by a third
Figures released today (April 18, 2018) by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the charity that searches for and removes online child sexual abuse imagery, show that more of this disturbing material is being found than ever before.
The data is published in the IWF’s Annual Report, which provides a yearly global measure of the number of online images and videos of children being sexually abused to government, the police and the internet industry. The eagerly awaited report also contains trends in how services are being abused by offenders to host this illegal material.
https://www.iwf.org.uk/news/iwf-global-figures-show-online-child-sexual-abuse-imagery-up-by-a-third