Significant Trends 2003
- 20,000 reports submitted to the IWF via the internet hotline
- Increase of 9% on previous year
- 400 reports about potentially illegal content processed each week
- 80 reports processed every day
- Intelligence passed to the police up 14% on previous year
- 33% of all reports received substantiated as potentially illegal
- Racial abuse complaints increased by 101%
- IWF Internet Content Analysts pro-active work doubled
- Potentially illegal content hosted in the UK reduced from 18% in 1997 to less than 1% by the end of 2003
- Child abuse content traced to Europe down from 19% to 6% on previous year
- Child abuse content traced to US hosted sites up to 55%
- Child abuse content traced to Russia up 5% on previous year to 23%
- 99% of illegal content traced to outside the UK
- 500,000 Newsgroup images no longer available per UK ISP
- 73 potentially illegal newsgroup names
- 24 newsgroups found to be regularly hosting child abuse images
- Potentially illegal content traced to newsgroups down by 62%
- 33 pay-per-view websites per week found to be hosting potentially illegal child abuse images
- 66 websites per week found to be hosting potentially illegal child abuse images.
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