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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern Technology editor

Over 90% of child sexual abuse imagery is self-generated, data shows

A child looks at a smartphone
The Internet Watch Foundation said 10 years ago self-generated content was not something it found at all in its monitoring of child sexual abuse online. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

More than 90% of child sexual abuse imagery found on the internet is now self-generated, according to the charity responsible for finding and removing such material.

The Internet Watch Foundation said that it discovered self-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) featuring children under 10 on more than 100,000 webpages in the last year. That figure is an increase of 66% on the year before.

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