IWF’s new tech capability accounts for thousands of additional child victims in criminal content for the first time

A total of 60,604 additional children can now be ‘seen’ owing to the new ability, and their abuse images incorporated into a dataset used by tech companies and law enforcement around the world.  The new feature has been added to Intelligrade, a tool used by the IWF to accurately, and in great detail, grade child sexual abuse images and videos, providing them with a unique ‘hash’ or digital fingerprint that will prevent them from being uploaded or shared on the internet.

The enhancement has been possible thanks to funding from Nominet’s Countering Online Harms fund, which supports charities and organisations developing ‘tech for good’ solutions that improve lives.

So far in 2024, the IWF has recorded 563,590 children in criminal child sexual abuse images. This is the first time the IWF, and any other organisation working on this field, has been able to account for every child appearing in abusive sexual images online.

The IWF Hash List has more than two million hashes, preventing this criminal content from being shared again and again.  

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