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US CSAM law

United States federal law requiring ISPs to report known or suspected child victimization to NCMEC

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Jan 20, 2026
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How do state laws like California’s notice-and-staydown rules interact with federal CSAM reporting obligations and provider liability?

California’s new notice-and-staydown regime (AB 1394) requires platforms to block reported CSAM and make “reasonable efforts” to prevent reposting, creating a state-level duty that sits alongside—but ...

Jan 23, 2026

How does NCMEC’s CyberTipline triage and prioritize reports when visual realism is ambiguous?

When is ambiguous — for example, deepfakes, CGI, virtual avatars, or images where subject age is unclear — ’s CyberTipline relies on a human-analyst triage backed by provider metadata labels, categori...