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The issue of child sexual exploitation and the role of CyberTips in addressing it.
A CyberTip submitted by Snapchat to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) can and often does trigger law enforcement investigations that have led to arrests, but submissi...
Law enforcement agencies use NCMEC’s Case Management Tool (CMT) as a centralized conduit for CyberTipline reports, technical assistance, forensic resources and training to coordinate investigations th...
Federal law requires online providers to report apparent child sexual exploitation to NCMEC’s CyberTipline and sets baseline content-retention and reporting-contact rules, while the 2024 REPORT Act ex...
A tip to NCMEC alleging nude images of underage girls generated by AI would usually be accepted into the CyberTipline and treated as a report of potential child sexual exploitation, but whether local ...
Police ethnicity records for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSEA) in England and Wales are currently of limited reliability: recording is inconsistent across forces, large proportions of cases l...
A report to NCMEC’s CyberTipline does not automatically make content vanish from the internet because NCMEC’s role is a federal clearinghouse that reviews reports, enriches them with metadata, and for...
Using Tor or Tor-based search engines is not illegal per se: Tor is a privacy tool used legally by researchers, activists and ordinary users . However, seeking pornographic images on Tor carries clear...
The CyberTipline, run by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), functions as a centralized clearinghouse where the public and electronic service providers submit reports of susp...