Analysis
What a New Mexico court has ordered Meta to change for teenagers, and what it left out
The first court to hold a social media company liable for endangering children has set five years of supervised changes to Facebook and Instagram. The list is long; the gap in it is telling.
Global Child Protection Initiative
Every child deserves safety. Everywhere.
KIFOV is a new, independent initiative. We help people reach the services that can protect a child, we study how children come to harm, online and off, and we press for the changes that would prevent it.
KIFOV does not run a helpline or an emergency service. If a child is in danger now, call your local emergency number.
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Analysis
What a New Mexico court has ordered Meta to change for teenagers, and what it left out
The first court to hold a social media company liable for endangering children has set five years of supervised changes to Facebook and Instagram. The list is long; the gap in it is telling.
Explainer
AI companion chatbots and teenagers: what changed when Character.AI ended open-ended chat for under-18s
Guide
Violent online networks that target children: the warning signs the FBI wants parents to know
Explainer
The Take It Down Act is now enforced: how to get an intimate image removed in the United States
Statement
Why KIFOV starts with a help directory, not a hotline
We could have launched with a reporting form and big promises. We chose to begin with something smaller that works: a checked, dated route to the people who can act.
Guide
Roblox Kids, Roblox Select and age checks: a guide for parents
Roblox now decides who your child can chat with by age group, and switches chat off for anyone who has not completed an age check. What changed, what you control, and what to keep an eye on.
News
21.3 million reports in a year: what NCMEC’s 2025 CyberTipline data shows about risks to children
Reports of online enticement rose 158% and child sex trafficking reports 323%. The figures are a record of what was reported, which is not the same as a measure of how often children are harmed.
Why KIFOV exists
Help exists. Finding it should not depend on luck.
In most countries there is someone who can help a child at risk: a helpline, a specialist hotline, the police, a regulator. But that help is scattered. A parent who finds a threatening message late at night, or a teenager whose photo is being used to blackmail them, often has to work out alone which organisation can act, and whether it covers their country.
At the same time, the companies whose apps and games children use publish their own accounts of how safe those products are. Few of those accounts are checked by anyone independent.
KIFOV was set up to work on both problems: to make the route to real help short and reliable, and to examine, with evidence, how well children are protected by the services they use every day.
Our work
Four ways we work
Support
A directory of help services that we check ourselves, entry by entry, with the date of the last check on every listing. It points people to those who can act; it does not replace them.
Protect
Plain, practical guidance for children, families and the adults around them, based on what specialist services advise and linked to those services.
Research
Independent research and investigations into how children are put at risk, with published methods, named sources and a clear line between what is known and what is not.
Change
Holding platforms to their own promises: comparing the protections they offer children, asking them to respond, and publishing the answers.
Pilot
Global Safety Resource Directory
A directory of help services for children, checked by us entry by entry and dated, growing one country at a time.
Planned
Platform Safety Observatory
A planned programme to compare, with a published method, the safety tools that large platforms offer children and how well they work in practice.
Planned
Annual Global Child Safety Report
A planned yearly review of what changed for children’s safety worldwide, drawing on published research, official data and our own work.
Pilot
KIFOV for Families
Clear, practical guidance for parents and carers on keeping children safe online and off, based on what specialist services advise.
Global focus
Worldwide in scope, careful in what we list
KIFOV covers the protection of children worldwide. Our help directory grows one country at a time: a country appears here when we have checked its services ourselves, not because we have an office there. We have no offices yet.
For every other country, our Get Help page points to international directories run by organisations that work with local services.
Our impact
How we will measure progress
Definitions before numbers
Every figure we will publish has a written definition, a counting rule and a named source before it has a value.
Our work, not others’
We count only what KIFOV itself did. Work done by hotlines, police or platforms is theirs to report.
A referral is not an outcome
Pointing someone to a service is not the same as a child being safe. We will never present it as if it were.
Independent services
Help that works across borders
These organisations are not KIFOV partners. We list them because their services are real and reach many countries, and we check each listing ourselves.
Directory of services · International
Find a child helpline in your country
A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.
- Run by Child Helpline International
- Checked by KIFOV on 30 October 2026
Hotline for child sexual abuse material · International
Report child sexual abuse material to your national hotline
Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.
- Run by INHOPE
- Checked by KIFOV on 30 October 2026
Help removing images · International
Take It Down
A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.
- Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
- Checked by KIFOV on 30 October 2026
Directory of services · International
Find A Helpline
A directory of free, confidential helplines and crisis lines in many countries, searchable by country and by topic, for emotional support and crisis situations including thoughts of suicide.
- Run by ThroughLine
- Checked by KIFOV on 30 October 2026
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