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The process of reporting and investigating child sexual abuse material, including the role of electronic service providers and law enforcement.
The CyberTipline operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) functions as a centralized clearinghouse that receives mandated and voluntary reports of suspected child sexua...
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) accepts CyberTip reports from the public and from electronic service providers (ESPs), and the kind of evidence that most directly valida...
NCMEC’s CyberTipline collects reports from the public and, primarily, from electronic service providers (ESPs) that are legally required to flag suspected child sexual abuse material; NCMEC analysts t...
NCMEC’s CyberTipline receives mandated reports from electronic service providers under federal law and processes them through automated de-duplication, human analyst review, jurisdictional triage, and...
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) operates the CyberTipline and says staff review each tip to identify apparent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and find a probable locati...
Local prosecutor offices do not treat CyberTipline referrals as an automatic charging packet; they triage them through a mix of referral quality, victim risk indicators, and resource constraints, ofte...
The CyberTipline Reporting API expects ESPs to submit a structured XML report containing an incident (the initial report) and associated file metadata; key metadata elements called out in NCMEC’s docu...
The NCMEC CyberTipline aggregates reports of child sexual exploitation from the public and electronic service providers, reviews them, and makes them available to domestic and international law enforc...
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reviews every CyberTipline submission and—when it can identify a geographic jurisdiction based on the location of a suspect, a victim, or b...