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Resources for Survivors of CSAM

Take It Down: A One-Step Service from NCMEC

This service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18.  Visit the NCMEC’s Take It Down page to make a report.

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NCMEC’s Team HOPE

NCMEC’s Team HOPE is a group of peer support volunteers who have lived experience with missing and exploited children’s issues and are dedicated to offering compassionate peer support, empathy, understanding, kindness, and friendship to people who experienced being or having a missing or sexually exploited child.

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UK National Crime Agency Safety Centre

Victims in the UK can report sexual abuse or exploitation through the UK National Crime Agency’s Safety Centre.

Resources for Removing CSAM Content Online

Professional Training

NCMEC is committed to providing training, technical assistance and resources to public safety and child-serving professionals. NCMEC hosts in-person classroom training sessions in its Walsh Training Center located in their Alexandria, VA headquarters, as well as facilities located across the country at their regional offices and partner agencies. Online courses are available through NCMEC Connect, designed to provide easy access to training and resources for professionals on the frontlines. Contact NCMEC training staff via email, training@ncmec.org.

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Register with NCMEC to Report CSAM

U.S. federal law requires that U.S.-based electronic service providers (ESPs) report instances of apparent child pornography that they become aware of on their systems to NCMEC’s CyberTipline. NCMEC works closely with ESPs on voluntary initiatives that many companies choose to engage in to deter and prevent the proliferation of online child sexual exploitation images. To date, over 1,400 companies are registered to make reports to NCMEC’s CyberTipline and, in addition to making reports, these companies also receive notices from NCMEC about suspected CSAM on their servers. Are you an ESP who would like to register with NCMEC? Email espteam@ncmec.org.

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NCMEC’s CyberTipline

NCMEC’s CyberTipline provides an online mechanism for members of the public and ESPs to report incidents of suspected child sexual exploitation including:

• online enticement of children for sexual acts
• extra-familial child sexual molestation
• child pornography
• child sex tourism
• child sex trafficking
• unsolicited obscene materials sent to children
• misleading domain names
• misleading words or digital images on the internet

UK Support: UK Police’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Division (CEOP)

CEOP hosts a Safety Centre with information for Private Sector organisations in relation to Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE) as well as resources to prevent CSAE from appearing on platforms.

International Support: Baseline

Baseline is an INTERPOL initiative intended to enable third parties to detect and disrupt the further circulation of some of the worst known child sexual abuse material that may be on their systems. They can do this by checking images and videos against our Baseline list, which contains the ‘digital signatures’ of some of the worst child abuse images and videos. If a signature matches, network operators alert the police and remove the material, thereby limiting its circulation. The Baseline list is continuously updated with new CSAM file signatures, through the collaborative work of specialized officers in member countries and the INTERPOL General Secretariat. The Baseline List is intended to be a universal list of CSAM files that would be illegal in most, if not all national jurisdictions. To be included in the Baseline list, child abuse images and videos must meet the following criteria:

• The children depicted are “real”;
• The ages of the children depicted are (or appear to be) younger than 13 years;
• The abuse is considered severe.
• The above criteria must be found by two different countries/agencies and verified by the CAC Unit before a file’s digital signature is added to the Baseline list