
Nominet, the official registry for UK domain names, has joined forces with online safety organisation Internet Matters to fund the new research into self-generated child abuse material (CSAM) and how best to prevent it.
The term self-generated CSAM describes sexual content – images and videos – generated and shared by children themselves.
Statistics from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) show an increase of more than 400 per cent of such imagery in the UK – from 38,500 cases in 2019 to 182,000 cases in 2021, and 199,000 in 2022.
Last year, 78 per cent of all abuse content accessed by the IWF was reported to be CSAM, with 127,732 incidents linked to 11-to 13-year-old girls.
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