Significant Trends 2005
Key Figures from 2005:
- 23,658 reports from the public processed by IWF
- 6,128 reports made to law enforcement agencies
- Only 0.4% of potentially illegal child abuse content hosted in the UK
- 0% of criminally obscene content hosted in the UK
- 0% of criminally racist content hosted in the UK
- 40% of child abuse content traced to the US
- 28% of child abuse content traced to Russia
- 17% of child abuse content traced to Asian countries
- 13% of child abuse content traced to Europe
- 156 intelligence reports relating to UK offenders were passed to police
- 211 newsgroups are now listed as potentially illegal in the UK
- 226 notices were issued to internet service providers to take down a further 12,777 images that were published in newsgroups
- 47% of child abuse websites were commercial Pay-Per-View
- 70% of Pay-Per-View websites are hosted in Russia or the US
- Every report to IWF hotline processed within 24 hours
Page Created: Wed, March 22nd, 2006
Page Modified: Tue, March 28th, 2006