This week is an important week in child internet safety. We’ve already blogged on Facebook’s support for anti-bullying week, and the 24th October saw the annual Internet Watch Foundation Awareness Day. At the Internet Watch Foundation Reception in Westminster on Wednesday it was great to see the work that the IWF are doing both in [...]
Criminals intent on distributing images of children being sexually abused are finding new ways of exploiting legitimate online technology, according to the Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) 2011 Annual Report launched yesterday. Highlights of the report: Disguised websites: Criminals are ‘disguising’ websites to appear as if they host only legal content. However, if an internet user [...]
Today (7th October 2010) is the fourth national Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) awareness day. This year major UK internet companies are joining together with government departments, charities and police bodies to promote the IWF and its confidential online reporting service. eModeration supports and works in partnership with the IWF in its battle against child abuse [...]
The UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) today published its Annual Report 2009, revealing the existence of at least 450 distinct criminal ‘brands’ selling images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, worldwide. The ten most prolific ‘brands’ alone account for more than 650 unique web pages. By removing and disrupting these ‘gateway’ pages the [...]
Today, (Wednesday 14 October 2009) is the third Internet Watch Foundation Awareness Day, and eModeration (a founder member of the IWF) is marking the event by helping to publicise their crucial work. Public reports help remove child sexual abuse images in UK and around the world More people than ever are using its Hotline to [...]
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a UK self-regulatory body, funded by the internet industry and the EU, operating a national hotline for public reports of criminal internet content (http://www.iwf.org.uk/) and providing a notice and take-down service to companies offering web hosting services in the UK. Since 1996 it has [...]
eModeration, the company specialising in moderating user generated content (UGC), has pledged its support to fight illegal web content by becoming a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The Foundation and its members work with UK industry, Government, the police and the public to help combat illegal online content. The IWF provides the UK’s [...]