Internet Watch Foundation

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The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a non-governmental charitable body located in the United Kingdom. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) was founded in 1996 by the internet industry to provide the UK internet Hotline for the public and IT professionals to report criminal online content in a secure and confidential way. The Hotline service can be used anonymously to report unappropriated or potentially illegal content.

IWF work in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, and international partners to minimize online:

child sexual abuse images hosted anywhere in the world;
criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK;
incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK;
non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.

As part of its function, the IWF produces a blacklist of Internet sites and content that it deems to be in contravention/potentially in contravention to UK laws.

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