Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.1 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
EU Transparency Register
144739515066-23 First registered on 06 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
The IWF was established in 1996 by the internet industry to provide the UK internet Hotline for the public and IT professionals to report criminal online content in a secure and confidential way.
The Hotline service can be used anonymously to report content within our remit.
We work in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, and international partners to minimise the availability of this content, specifically:
- child sexual abuse images hosted anywhere in the world
- non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.Main EU files targeted
EU initiatives related to the fight against online child sexual abuse material and online child safety, including proposals in the context of the European Digital Single Market.
Blocking/filtering and freedom of the internet debates.
e-privacy, GDPR, e-commerce directive, Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence, EU strategy on Child Sexual Abuse, EU strategy on the Rights of the Child, Better Internet for Kids Strategy, EU review of rules to combat child sexual abuse.Address
Head Office
Discovery HouseVision Park
Histon CB24 9ZR
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Discovery HouseVision Park
Histon CB24 9ZR
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 2 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Jonah THOMPSON 29 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Jonah THOMPSON 13 Sep 2022 13 Sep 2023 Mr Thompson JONAH 13 Sep 2022 21 Sep 2022 Ms Susan HARGREAVES 31 May 2022 31 May 2023 Ms Abigail FEDOROVSKY 31 May 2022 31 May 2023 Mr Michael TUNKS 31 May 2022 31 May 2023 Complementary Information
Occasionally an additional person may be present with the primary contact.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
INHOPE - INHOPE is an active and collaborative network of 51 hotlines in 45 countries worldwide, dealing with illegal content online and committed to stamping out child sexual abuse from the Internet.
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Internal Security Fund 80,465€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant Internal Security Fund 161,210€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount political intelligence 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name political intelligence Closed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
These figures relate to the IWF's involvement in Preventing and Reducing the use of child sexual abuse material through on device Technology.
Project number: ISF-2021-TF1-AG-CYBER, Improving the prevention of child sexual abuse. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Children's rights
Communication activities
Internet Watch Foundation's Annual Report launch in Brussels (27 April 2022)
Link to report: https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/annual-report-2021/
IWF Annual Report launch event in Brussels (26 April 2023):
Link to report: https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/annual-report-2022/
IWF spoke at:
A European Liberal Forum meeting (To discuss how we can use technology to keep children safe online?)- 10 October 2022.
European Parliament Intergroup Meeting (Tech to keep children safe online)- 16 November 2022.
Evidence to the LIBE Committee Rapporteur and Shadow Rapporteurs on laying down new rules to prevent and combat CSAM- March 2023.
Evidence to the IMCO Committee on the protection of Minors- June 2023.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 02 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject The participant’s and the EU efforts to prevent and tackle child sexual abuse. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson Portfolio Home Affairs Attending - Monika Maglione (Cabinet member)
- Ylva Johansson (Commissioner)
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Date 01 Oct 2020 Location VTC Subject Tackling child sexual abuse online Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson Portfolio Home Affairs Attending - Monika Maglione (Cabinet member)
- Ylva Johansson (Commissioner)
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Date 16 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM and the Internet Watch Foundation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Hotlines in the fight against child sexual abuse images Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Jasmin Battista (Cabinet member)