Whoops, Child Porn Again

18 March 2013

1.5 million 'stumble on child porn'

"An internet watchdog claims more than one million adults have accidentally stumbled across child pornography online

About 1.5 million adults have stumbled across child pornography while browsing online, an internet watchdog said.

A survey by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), set up in 1996 as a UK hotline to report criminal content online, discovered that 4% of men and 2% of women have come into contact with images of child abuse.

However, the survey showed around 40% of Britons would not know how to report child porn if they were to encounter it.

Child porn emerged as the number one concern among adults when considering a range of illegal or harmful content online, with terrorist websites and extreme or violent pornography coming closely behind."

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/15-million-stumble-on-child-porn-29136343.html

Child pornography is top web concern, but how do you report it?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/child-pornography-is-top-web-concern-but-how-do-you-report-it-8538328.html

New study reveals child sexual abuse content as top online concern and potentially 1.5m adults have stumbled upon it

http://www.iwf.org.uk/about-iwf/news/post/347-new-study-reveals-child-sexual-abuse-content-as-top-online-concern-and-potentially-15m-adults-have-stumbled-upon-it

1.5million people in UK ‘have stumbled upon images of child abuse by accident’

http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/18/1-5million-people-in-uk-have-stumbled-upon-images-of-child-abuse-by-accident-3546571/

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4 Aug 2013 08:23

Amazon used to share images of child abuse - and it's increased 10 times in just two years

"Shocking new figures from the Internet Watch Foundation reveal that in just two years the number of pages on Amazon’s web services hosting such images have increased TEN TIMES.

Amazon offers the service to store data, ­photographs and videos. But we can reveal that more and more paedophiles [sic] are taking advantage of the technology to trade vile [sic] images because it is ­difficult for them to be ­identified and prosecuted.

The total number of child sex abuse web pages [sic] hosted on ­Amazon has increased from 37 in 2011 to 372 in the first six months of this year.

Within any web page there can be [sic] thousands, or millions, of ­images. And yet more ­disturbing is that so far this year 90 per cent of the material on Amazon pages has involved victims aged between two and 10."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amazon-used-share-images-child-2122161#.Uf5tO4C13RA.twitter