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The process by which platforms report to NCMEC's CyberTipline, including the use of internal risk-detection signals, automated classifiers, and context such as chat or location data.
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 receives mandated reports from electronic service providers under federal law and processes them through automated de-duplication, human analyst review, jurisdictional triage, and...
NCMEC’s CyberTipline and the law that scaffolds it treat images and purely textual content differently: federal statute and many ESP obligations are squarely aimed at visual depictions (CSAM), while t...
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) operates the CyberTipline as the United States’ centralized reporting system for suspected online child sexual exploitation and related mat...
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) classifies CyberTipline submissions into operational categories—most notably “referral” when a report contains sufficient actionable inform...
Platforms triage and flag reports as “urgent” for by combining internal risk-detection signals (manual reviewer flags, automated classifiers, and context such as chat or location data) with NCMEC labe...
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...