New data shows a significant increase in the number of British primary school children generating their own sexual abuse imagery since lockdowns.
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which published the data, is a UK-based organisation with the goal of finding and removing images and video online child abuse. IWF is an independent charity funded by members who include Amazon, Cisco, Google, Sky, Tik Tok, and BT (British Telecom).
It has legal powers to conduct searches of images.
IWF found 20,000 items of child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2022 including “self-generated” content of seven to 10-year-old children.
According to IWF that is 8,000 more instances than the same period last year. Compared to the same period in 2020, there has been a 360 percent increase in self-generated images by children in the range of seven to 10 years old….