PIR and IWF Partner To Assist All Domain Registries in Battle Against CSAM

Public Interest Registry, the team behind .org, and the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation have partnered to make available tools to all domain name registries in the global battle against child sexual abuse material.

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Paedophiles using AI to turn singers and film stars into kids

Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create images of celebrities as children.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said images of a well-known female singer reimagined as a child are being shared by predators.

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AI could worsen epidemic of child sexual abuse, warns UK crime agency

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Artificial intelligence could further fuel an epidemic of child sexual abuse, Britain’s top law enforcement agency has warned, as it said that one in every 50 men pose a risk to children.

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Nominet Supports Programmes To Research CSAM and Develop Digital Skills

Over the past couple of weeks Nominet, the .uk registry, has announced it will be funding Internet Matters to carry out research into the growing problem of self-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as well another programme to address the UK’s growing digital skills shortage and pull down the barriers many face trying to enter the rapidly-evolving workforce.

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Self-generated sexual abuse of children aged seven to 10 rises two-thirds: IWF

Incidents of children aged between seven and 10 being manipulated into recording abuse of themselves have surged by two-thirds over the past six months, according to a global report.

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Children between three and six ‘victims of self-generated child sexual abuse’

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Children as young as between three and six years old are becoming the latest victims in a growing trend of self-generated child sexual abuse, a report from an internet safety watchdog has said.

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2021 was worst year on record for online child sex abuse, says IWF

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Internet grooming of children has surged during lockdown, according to new research that found a threefold increase in online sexual abuse imagery featuring seven to 10-year-olds.

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IWF: ‘Grave threat’ to children from predatory internet groomers as online child sexual abuse material soars to record levels

[news release] Predatory online groomers are a “grave and widespread threat” to children in their bedrooms as new figures reveal the record-breaking scale of child sexual abuse imagery on the internet.

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Calls to UK’s online child sexual abuse watchdog up 45% in September

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A hotline for reporting suspected child abuse material online had a record month in September, with calls increasing 45%, driven by the shift to working from home and more time spent online, an internet watchdog has said.

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UK Watchdog reveals 8.8m attempts to access online child abuse in April

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Nearly 9m attempts to access child sexual abuse material online were made in the UK last month during the coronavirus lockdown, according to an internet watchdog.

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