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<p>Whilst there is no definitive number of child sex abuse images online, industry
made over 10m referrals to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
in 2017, and the Internet Watch Foundation last year processed 132,636 reports in
2017 (26% increase on 2016).</p><p>As well as working closely with the IWF, including
the sharing of hashes with industry, the UK Government has invested in Project Arachnid
– a tool that crawls the web to find indecent imagery and get it removed. It has issued
approximately 1 million notices to service providers.</p><p>In September 2018, the
Home Secretary called on industry to raise their response online child sexual exploitation
and abuse, including to block child sexual abuse material as soon as companies detect
it being uploaded. The Home Office and DCMS are also developing a White Paper which
will set out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures to counter online
harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe online.
Protecting children from exploitation and abuse online will be a central component
of the White Paper.</p>
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