Tech Coalition

Last call to register for #TrustCon. Details from Trust & Safety Professional Association below. We hope to see you there! We are sponsoring the child safety track featuring 25 events over all three days (July 22-24). Here is a look at the child safety track events for Wednesday, July 24: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM - The Trust Framework for Transparency Reporting for Online CSEA Lightning Talk - Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Age Assurance? Lightning Talk - Age Determination: A Best Practice Guide for Online Platforms with User Generated Content Lightning Talk - Fast-Tracking CSAM Detection with Hashing & Matching Lightning Talk - A Risk-Based Approach to Online Age Assurance Measures Lightning Talk - Charting the Course Together: Countering CSAM & Reporting it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Panel - Assessing for Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Risk in Product Development Presentation - Online Exploitation of Children with Intellectual Disability in Kenya Presentation

Child Safety Track at TrustCon TrustCon registration closes TOMORROW, July 9. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g4HTqiWS. We are sponsoring the child safety track featuring 25 events over all three days. Here is a look at the child safety track events for Tuesday, July 23: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Cross-Sector Collaboration for Tackling Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Workshop 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM - The State of Child Safety Tech in 2024 - Understanding Facilitator-Perpetrator Engagement & the Role of Technology in Enabling OSAEC in the Philippines - Leveling Up Our CSAM Detection Capabilities Through Ethical Experimentation Presentation 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM - Enacting Generative AI Safety by Design Principles to Combat Child Sexual Abuse Panel 2:50 PM - 3:40 PM - The CyberTipline Pipeline: Perspectives From Platforms, NCMEC & Law Enforcement Presentation - An Engineer's Perspective: Practical Considerations for Automating the NCMEC Reporting Process Presentation - Designing for Child Privacy and Safety: Legal Landscape, Best Practices & Tools Presentation 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM - “Pay Or Your Life is Ruined”: A Multi-Stakeholder Discussion of the Latest Sextortion Research & Trends Panel The full agenda can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gf7uMApg

Child Safety Track at TrustCon TrustCon 2024 will take place in San Francisco, CA, from July 22-24. You still have time to register - registration closes one week from today: https://lnkd.in/g4HTqiWS. We are sponsoring the child safety track featuring 25 events over all three days. Here is a look at the child safety track events for Monday, July 22: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM - Navigating Child Rights: Child Safety & Participation in the Digital Environment 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM - Identifying & Reporting AI-Generated CSAM Panel 2:50 PM - 3:40 PM - “I Am Constantly Fearful": How the Distribution of CSAM Endangers Adult Survivors and Ways Platforms Can Promote Survivors' Safety - Lantern: Strengthening Industry’s Fight Against Child Sexual Exploitation with Collaborative Signal Sharing 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM - Uncovering the Role of Yahoo Boys in the Rise of Financial Sextortion Targeting Minors - Beyond Borders: Lessons From Ghana's Fight Against Child Online Exploitation and CSAM - The ’Leaked’ Project: Understanding and Addressing Self-Generated Sexual Content Involving Young People in Thailand - Disrupting the International Distribution of CSAM Through Victim-Centric Technology The full agenda can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gf7uMApg

Child Safety Track at TrustCon We are four weeks away from #TrustCon2024 where the Tech Coalition is sponsoring the inaugural Child Safety Track featuring 25 events! Here are just a few that include the Tech Coalition and our members: Monday, July 22:  - Identifying & Reporting AI-Generated CSAM Panel - A presentation about Lantern and how its strengthening industry’s fight against OCSEA Tuesday, July 23:  - Cross-Sector Collaboration for Tackling OCSEA Research Workshop - Evolving Transparency Reporting: Insights From a Panel of Transparency Experts - “Pay Or Your Life is Ruined:” A Multi-Stakeholder Panel Discussion of the Latest Sextortion Research & Trends Wednesday, July 24:  - Fast-Tracking CSAM Detection with Hashing & Matching Lightning Talk - A presentation about Assessing for OCSEA Risk in Product Development - Charting the Course Together: A Panel Discussion on Countering CSAM & Reporting it to the NCMEC - The Trust Framework for Transparency Reporting for OCSEA Lightning Talk See the full TrustCon agenda: https://lnkd.in/gf7uMApg. There is still time to register here: https://lnkd.in/g4HTqiWS. We hope to see you in San Francisco! #trustandsafety

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar titled “Tech for Good: Using Machine Learning to Detect Sexual Harms Against Children.” Join Amanda Volz and Rob Wang from Thorn as we explore the use of machine learning for the detection of CSAM and CSE. Discover Thorn’s newest solution designed to proactively detect text-based harms and policy-violating messages that include discussions of sextortion, self-generated CSAM, access to children and more. In this session, we will explore: - The rise in online sexual harms, such as CSAM and CSE - Machine learning solutions for detecting images and text-based harms - Additional layers to consider for a holistic approach to online child safety. Date/Time: Thursday, June 27th at 12pm ET/9am PT. Register here! https://lnkd.in/e3H4f8Pp

Some news about our Board of Directors from our President and CEO:

We are thrilled to share that our leadership team at the Tech Coalition is growing! Please share a warm welcome to Lian Carl, Vice President of Operations, and Jess Lishak, Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs. Lian was most recently at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she served on the WWPS Nonprofit Sales Team as a Sr. Manager. She has a background in operations, product management, and program management. Jess will officially start in August and joins us from WeProtect Global Alliance, where she led the communications, member engagement, and survivor and youth participation team. Jess brings extensive experience in communications, public affairs, and international policy advocacy, with a specialized focus on combating online child sexual exploitation and abuse. Welcome to the team!

Tomorrow at 12:00pm ET, we are pleased to host a Tech Coalition webinar with Modulate, a provider of AI-powered voice technology solutions. They will discuss how Modulate's ToxMod system leverages artificial intelligence in a privacy-aware manner to detect and prevent instances of child exploitation and grooming in voice chat environments. Learn about the technical approaches to moderating in voice chat and other live stream environments by registering here: https://lnkd.in/e3iewaBX

Interested in learning more about technical solutions for combatting CSAM? We invite you to attend the Tech Coalition's upcoming webinar with Videntifier on June 4 at 1:00pm ET. Videntifier will share about their newest tool, Videntifier Nexus, that provides access to comprehensive hashing databases for various types of harmful content, including CSAM. Videntifier has already signed agreements with NCMEC and IWF, and is in the process of partnering with C3P and Interpol to expand its database coverage. In addition to supporting the Videntifier proprietary hash format, Videntifier Nexus supports other hash types like MD5, PDNA, and PDQ. Register here to learn more about this solution and hear other innovations in hashing and matching technologies: https://lnkd.in/eazscM_8

The Tech Coalition will fund new research on generative AI and online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) through its Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund. The first project to be funded will be research from the University of Kent on the impact of generative AI child sexual abuse material (CSAM) proliferation, focusing on how generative AI CSAM may reshape attitudes, norms, and behaviors among people who engage with CSAM and on how the perpetration and prevention ecosystems may respond. Additional projects will be chosen by the end of the year for funding in 2025. Application details will be announced in the coming months, so stay tuned! The new funding was announced today at an industry briefing on generative AI with key stakeholders hosted by the Tech Coalition. This was the second briefing of its kind and took place in London with select UK child safety experts, advocates, and members of law enforcement and government. Among them were representatives from the Home Office, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), Lucy Faithfull Foundation, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and Safe Online, as well as 14 Tech Coalition member companies, including Adobe, Amazon, Bumble Inc., Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Roblox, Snap Inc., and TikTok. These briefings are designed to develop a shared understanding of the potential risks predatory actors pose to children through the misuse of generative AI and the ways companies are currently addressing those threats, as well as to identify and initiate new opportunities for stakeholder collaboration on this issue. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/epR9RYhW