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Internet Watch Foundation: Child Porn Reports Rise Dramatically

The number of reports made by the public about potentially illegal online content increased 37% in 2005, while there was an 80% increase in the number of cases passed on to the authorities, the Internet Watch Foundation has revealed.

But the IWF figures, published in the group’s 2005 Annual Report, also show that just 0.4% of child abuse images on the internet are hosted in the UK, down from 18% in 1997.

The IWF operates an internet ‘hotline’ for reporting both potentially illegal child abuse images, hosted on the internet anywhere in the world, and criminally obscene and racist content hosted in the UK.

posted by Fergie @ 3/08/2006 08:30:00 AM