Sarah Robertson

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Sarah Robertson Director of Communications
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IWF Remit

• To minimise the availability of potentially
  illegal internet content
• Images of child sexual abuse hosted
  anywhere in the world
• Criminally obscene content hosted in UK
• Incitement to racial hatred content hosted
  in UK

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IWF Model

• Established in 1996
• UK internet Hotline - process
• Notice and take-down service
• Self-regulatory body
• Voluntary Code of Practice
• Partnership approach
• Registered charity
• Funding
• Legal status - MoU
• Content not suspects

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Accountability

• Board of Directors
• Funding Council
• Independent inspection
• Public and media scrutiny

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Partnerships

• Industry
• Government
• Home Office
• Department for Business
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Department for Children, Schools, Families
• Various MPs, Peers and officials
• Law enforcement
• CEOP Centre
• Interpol, Europol
• Local forces, Hi-tech Crime Units
• Public

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International partnerships

• EU Safer Internet plus Programme
• Founder of INHOPE Association
• 35 Hotlines in 31 countries worldwide
• European Commission, United Nations

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Diverse industry support

• ISPs, CSPs, host companies
• Portals
• Mobile operators
• Search providers
• Filtering and software companies
• Domain name registries/registrars
• Financial sector
• Corporate Social Responsibility

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Membership Growth
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Services

• Notice and Takedown
• URL list
• Newsgroups
• Keywords
• Good practice guide
• Image assessment
• Government consultations and briefing
• International expertise
• Support prosecutions
• Raising awareness

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Content

• Since 1996, IWF has dealt with more than 200,000
  reports
• 12 years experience tracking, understanding
  website behaviours
• 1 in 20 UK adult internet users or 1.5 million
  people
• stumble across indecent images of children
• 2008 data reveals continuing severe and
  commercial images
• 9 decrease in the number of domains confirmed to
  contain indecent images of children (1500)
• 58 of child sexual abuse domains traced contain
  graphic images involving penetration or sexual
  torture
• 69 of the children appear to be 10 years old or
  younger 24 6 or under, and 4 2 or under
• 74 of child sexual abuse domains traced are
  commercial
• It is rare to trace child sexual abuse content to
  hosts in the UK

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Global issue

• International law enforcement action, in
  partnership with Hotlines, can tackle the
  remaining core of sites
• Ways to tackle the global problem
• More hotlines
• International legal consensus and strong laws for
  distribution and viewing
• Public/private partnership involving service
  providers and wider sector
• National notice and take-down schemes to remove
  criminal online content
• Filtering/blocking services to prevent accidental
  access to illegal websites
• Worldwide notice and take-down
• Partnership with domain name registries to delist
  domain names that sell child sexual abuse images
• Sharing data, intelligence and tactics
  internationally to combat the cross-border nature
  of these crimes