IWF’s efforts to remove images of child sexual abuse from the Web won’t tackle pedophile networks
Aug26
In the fight against the spread of child sexual abuse images on the Web, the Internet Watch Foundation has announced that it is to share its database of digital signatures of images, known as the hash list, with internet giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo. This action follows David Cameron’s announcement of tougher measures to combat online child sexual abuse material at the #WePROTECT conference in November 2014. The big question is whether this will make any great difference and, if so, why hasn’t it happened sooner? The IWF and its critics The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a…
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