INHOPE
The International Association of Internet Hotlines
Fighting online Child Sexual Abuse
Russell Chadwick
Executive Director
"The project is co-funded by the European Union, through the Safer Internet plus programme"
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Who are we?
 Active network of 49 Internet hotlines in 43 countries worldwide
responding to reports of illegal content
 Comprises an Association: 46 fully-fledged hotlines in 40 countries
 Association founded in 1999 under the EC Safer Internet Programme
to combat illegal content online including Child Sexual Abuse Material
(CSAM)
 Core business is supporting hotlines, cooperation
enforcement and industry in Notice and Takedown efforts
with
law
 93%+ of hosting covered by the INHOPE network
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European
Union
What we do?
 Combat Child Sexual Abuse Content and other illegal material on
the Internet.
 Raise awareness of INHOPE and member Hotlines as a single
point of contact for global reports of illegal content
 Provide a global trend analysis of the distribution of online Child
Sexual Abuse to visualise where further action is needed
 Work with partners: operational cooperation and knowledge
sharing, MoUs signed with Europol, Interpol and ECPAT
International
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Union
Co-funded
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European
Union
Role and process
 To prevent and protect, maximum cooperation and a multi-stakeholder
approach is required.
 Citizens need to know where to report illegal content and criminal
conduct.
 Deposit CSAM URLs in central server, the INHOPE Report
Management System (IHRMS)
 Liaise with Law Enforcement Agencies and Content Service Providers
 Issue notices to hosting providers of child sexual abuse material
 Provide evidenced-based knowledge to stakeholders
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Threat assessment
 Higher levels of demand for new abuse material
 Coinciding with greater Internet adoption rates worldwide,
currently 2.9 billion and growing.
 Offenders seek out environments popular with children + young
people
 Dealing with highly skilled criminality, encrypting and anonymising
activities online on the rise
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Understanding the broader context
in which we operate
Legal landscape
 Still 53 countries with no law or legal definition of child
pornography
 Offenders tend to use online storage in foreign jurisdictions where
possession is currently not a criminal offence
 2011/92/EC Directive which specifically acknowledges the role of
hotlines
Political, industry and law enforcement developments
 Increased issue awareness and higher on political agenda
 Series of initiatives: Digital Agenda, Global Alliance, CEO
Coalition, EFC, VGT and ITU COP Initiative
 Fight against CSAM gradually embedded in Corporate social
responsibility strategies
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European
Union
Our Strategic Alliances
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Governments and Governmental Bodies
EC, UN, OSCE, CoE
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Law Enforcement Agencies
, VGT, EFC, Circamp
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Industry
EuroISPA, Microsoft, GSMA…
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Safer Internet Projects
INSAFE, eNACSO, EU Kids Online
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Child Welfare and Rights Groups
ECPAT, Save the Children, Childnet
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Union
Looking forward
 INHOPE and partners developing a new pan-European
multilingual platform for sharing tools and resources between
hotlines.
 Enhancement of current INHOPE Report Management System
(IHRMS) that will allow for a video/ image fingerprinting database
to be hosted by INTERPOL
 In turn, this will further reduce workloads for hotlines and LEAs
caused by duplication
 It will allow for sophisticated statistical analysis and pattern
identification
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European
Union
Why INHOPE statistics are
so unique?
 Vital element of INHOPE’s work: collect accurate and timely
statistics from its global network
 Provide actionable intelligence which may lead to the arrest of
offenders and the identification of child victims
 Build global picture of the distribution of Child Sexual Abuse
Material (CSAM)
 Visualise where further critical action is needed
 Publish factual information and trends to assist stakeholders in
shaping their strategies.
 Data extracted from the INHOPE Report Management System
(IHRMS)
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Union
Statistics for 2013
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INHOPE statistics for 2013 published on 16 April 2014.
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A worrying and developing trend remains the increasing
incidence of very young children as victims.
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Co-funded
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Hosting trends CSAM
• Hosting patterns change over time,
depending on the popularity of technology
services within countries.
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European
Union
Commercial hosting
 Commercial means a financial transaction is needed to
access content.
 Non-commercial refers to free access.
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Notice and takedown
 Area of critical importance
 How quickly this material is removed from public access
 Good results do not happen by chance
 Closer cooperation with ISPs and law enforcement = content
being taken down more quickly than ever
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The INHOPE Foundation
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The INHOPE Foundation financially supports start up
activities of new hotlines outside of the European Union.
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Foundation Participants becoming INHOPE Association
members within 3 years, ensuring the Association continues
to grow on a global scale.
Contact Details
Russell Chadwick
INHOPE Executive Director
russell.chadwick@inhope.org
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