Report Remove is a service run jointly by NSPCC and the Internet Watch Foundation has reported a 34% increase in reports of blackmail attempts on children in the past year.
The service encourages children and young people to report intimate images of themselves online and there has been a 34% rise in reports of blackmail attempts over the previous year.
The service works by producing a ‘hash’ code that acts like a digital fingerprint, that can be shared shared with social media platforms to get the images taken down without directly sharing the images themselves. Of the 1,894 total reports by under-18s to the Report Remove service in 2025, 1,175 were so explicit as to qualify as child sexual abuse material.
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