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A proposed federal law that would require online providers to take active steps to remove CSAM.
Federal law today requires online providers to report apparent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) when they become aware of it, but it...
Documented tension exists between platform procedures and the preservation or usefulness of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) evidence: courts and policy debates show that voluntary industry scanning...
Investigators prioritize child safety and victim identification first, tracing and removing material rapidly while building admissible evidence for prosecution; those priorities drive resource allocat...
Current federal law requires electronic service providers (ESPs) to report apparent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline, a...
Encrypted phones present both a technical wall and a legal battleground in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) investigations: law enforcement can sometimes extract data through device-forensics or vul...
Platforms reporting suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to NCMEC’s CyberTipline submit a mix of technical file attributes, reporter contact details, and provider contact/preservation notices—...
Accessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Tor is criminal in most jurisdictions and draws specific U.S. federal enforcement, reporting and investigatory regimes while raising complex privacy and...
Recent reporting shows law enforcement continues to arrest users tied to CSAM circulated on mainstream forums and social platforms (not solely the dark web), with investigations using cyber tips, plat...
Prosecutions for people who produce and upload child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are far rarer than the volume of CSAM online because the problem outpaces law enforcement capacity, much of the materi...
Prosecutors and researchers report that the number of law‑enforcement‑identified CSAM incidents has surged while prosecutions have not kept pace, creating a growing gap between detection and criminal ...