Video: Culture Secretary: internet companies will proactively police child abuse images Technology giants and the Government have agreed a new approach to tackling online child abuse images with a beefed-up role for the internet watchdog. Representatives from Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, BT, Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Vodafone, O2, EE and Three were summoned to the meeting with Culture Secretary Maria Miller to decide what action to take on the issue. Ms Miller said they had agreed a "fundamental change" to the way the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) works, with the industry-funded body set to adopt a role actively seeking out and blocking child pornography. The main UK internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to provide extra funding for the IWF, understood to amount to £1 million, to help it take on the extra duties. Under current arrangements the IWF only acts on content that has been reported to it rather than proactively seeking out illegal images. Ms Miller said: "There was a very clear message coming out of today's meeting, which was an agreement to a zero tolerance approach on the issue of illegal child abuse images and that goes across the industry."