Report trends
Significant trends 1.1.03 – 31.12.03.
Overall reports up 9% to 20,000
400 reports of potentially illegal content are processed every week
80 reports of potentially illegal material are processed every day
99% of illegal content is traced to outside the UK
UK hosted potentially illegal content down from 18% to 1% since 1997.
Child abuse content traced to USA now amounts to 55%
Child abuse content traced to Russia up 5% to 23%
Child abuse content traced to Europe down from 19% to 6%
Racial abuse reports up 101% to 302
Potentially illegal content traced to newsgroups down by 62%
500,000 newsgroup images no longer available per ISP
Newsgroups regularly hosting child abuse images = 24
Newsgroup names that are potentially illegal = 71
Intelligence passed to Police up 14%
A third of incoming child abuse reports are confirmed as potentially illegal
PPV websites hosting potentially illegal child abuse images = 33 a week
Websites hosting potentially illegal child abuse images = 66
Updated 13.01.04/PR
Page Created: Thu, October 7th, 2004
Page Modified: Wed, October 20th, 2004
