IWF has been named Not for Profit of the Year at the British Data Awards 2022.
Chris Hughes, who has worked at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) for nearly nine years, oversees the IWF’s hotline and leads a team of analysts whose job is to assess images and videos of suspected child sexual abuse to help get them removed from the internet.
The Internet Watch Foundation scooped a top prize at the 2023 National Technology Awards.
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Information from IWF on how we handle the privacy of stakeholder data and information.
It is IWF policy to make every effort to protect our information assets from threats – whether they be internal or external, deliberate or accidental.
Discover the latest trends & data in the fight against online child sexual abuse imagery in the 2025 Annual Report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
New data released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows almost 20,000 webpages of child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2022 included ‘self-generated’ content of 7- to 10-year-old children.
The Age Appropriate Design Code sets out 15 standards that online services need to follow.
IWF warns full effects of lockdown are only now becoming apparent as younger children are groomed into sexual abuse online.