The Dark Side of Encryption
Increased encryption is drawing scrutiny as it disables organizations that work to filter and block imagery showing the sexual abuse of children.
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a registered charity dedicated to to minimizing the availability of online sexual abuse content, specifically child sexual abuse images and videos hosted anywhere in the world and non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK
Internet Watch Foundation Removes Over 100,000 Illicit Images in 2018
zvelo is a proud partner of the Internet Watch Foundation. Congratulations to the dedicated IWF team for 2018 successes and our continued support in 2019.
Today’s Home Search Engines: The Unfiltered (and Unsafe) Guide to the Dark Corners of the Web
In this blog, we explore the growing safety concerns and impacts of unsafe and unsecured search technology. Originally designed to provide fast and easy searching of nearly unlimited content—it now creates significant safety problems and often aggregates the web’s worst content.
zvelo Recognizes Staff in Fight Against Sexual Exploitation of Children
All of us here at zvelo are incredibly proud of the staff who tirelessly participate in these efforts. You are our rockstars. Our heroes. And, while it might be a difficult subject discuss, it is far from difficult to salute and thank a team who works diligently to make a difference in the fight against the sexual exploitation of a child.
Big Year of Change for the IWF
The Internet Watch Foundation works to remove online videos and images of child sexual abuse and its 2013 Annual & Charity Report highlighted significant milestones achieved and a big year of change.
IWF Actions its 100,000th Child Sexual Abuse Web Page
The Internet Watch Foundation has celebrated a major milestone. It has taken action against its 100,000th URL containing inappropriate child sexual abuse content. In addition, the IWF reports it has aided the rescue of at least 12 children in the past two years. The body’s 2012 accomplishments deserve some praise.
IWF Releases 2011 Annual Report – Shocking Statistics
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), now in its 16th year of combatting some of the worst online criminal content, has released its 2011 Annual and Charity Report. In it, the IWF disclosed some alarming trends and statistics about the proliferation of child sexual abuse images online. The IWF also noted significant successes in combatting this inappropriate type of web content, as detailed in the following excerpts.
IWF Rewards zvelo for its Support
zvelo is proud to support the Internet Watch Foundation in its mission to make the internet a safer place for all. By working to assess and remove webpages that disseminate criminal content and child sexual abuse content, the IWF is helping to stop criminal activity and to protect web users.
Reflections on the IWF 15-Year Fight Against Online Child Sexual Abuse Content
October 26, 2011, marked the Internet Watch Foundation’s annual Awareness Day, which served to raise awareness online and with the media about the IWF’s internet Hotline and its mission to minimize the availability of criminal online content, primarily child sexual abuse content, in partnership with various Internet industry organizations and law enforcement agencies. In its 15 years of existence, the IWF cites they have removed an overwhelming 87,000 web pages that have consisted of child sexual abuse content.