What is it?
Published on 25th April 2019, the 2018 Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Annual Report 'Once Upon a Year' provides the latest data and trends on what’s happening globally to tackle child sexual abuse images and videos online.
Key findings include:
- The IWF found record amounts (105,047 URLs) of child sexual abuse imagery last year due to improving its technology to help speed up the detection and assessment of the criminal images.
- 2018’s figures also show that the amount of child sexual abuse imagery hosted in the UK is at its lowest level ever recorded – 41 URLs or 0.04% of the global total. In 1996, 18% was hosted in the UK.
- Every five minutes IWF analysts find the image or video of a child like Olivia being sexually abused, and 4 out of 5 times this is hosted in a European country.
- Almost half (47%) of all the imagery found last year was discovered in the Netherlands.
- IWF has offered support to the Dutch organisation dealing with child sexual abuse imagery.
Where to find it
You can access the full report on the IWF's website.
