Learn The REPORT Act Is Now Federal Law – Here’s What It Means for Online Platforms The REPORT Act is now federal law. We provide details about its components and explain how it will impact online platforms.
Learn Unmasking the Perpetrators Online: Profiles of Bad Actors for Use by Trust and Safety Learn how easy access to children online has given rise to new types of child sexual perpetrators.
Learn 4 Considerations for Improving Your Child Safety Policies 4 considerations for Trust and Safety teams at digital platforms as they review their child safety policies. Here’s what to consider.
Learn Understanding Gen AI’s Risks to Child Safety on Digital Platforms In the last two years, generative AI has seen unprecedented advances. The technology ushered in the ability to create content and spread ideas faster than ever before. Yet these same capabilities present critical implications for child safety. In short, generative AI is introducing new
Learn The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Explained: What the Drafted Bill Could Mean for Your Online Platform Thorn's policy team explains the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and how the provisions in this bill may impact digital platforms.
Learn Key Takeaways from the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Hearing with Social Media CEOs On January 31, the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Discord testified during the hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis."
Product Updates Thorn’s Head of Data Science discuss how machine learning can support child safety on content-hosting platforms Watch Dr. Rebecca Portnoff’s keynote at AWS re:Invent 2023 to learn how Thorn is using machine learning to detect CSAM.
Product Updates Introducing Safer Essential, API-Based CSAM Detection Announcing the launch of our API-based solution for proactive detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Safer Essential.
Case Study VSCO Uses Safer to Protect Its Platform and Community of Creators from CSAM at Scale For VSCO, building Safer into its infrastructure unlocked automated solutions and moderation efficiencies for VSCO’s trust and safety and content moderation teams.
Learn Hashing and Matching is Core to Proactive CSAM Detection Detect known CSAM using hashing and matching, sometimes referred to as CSAM scanning. Learn how it works.
Emerging Trends Report 2023 Emerging Trends Report 2023 New report highlights findings from Thorn’s latest research and offers recommendations for addressing online sexual threats to children.
Learn Comprehensive CSAM Detection Combines Hashing and Matching with Classifiers Addressing CSAM requires scalable tools to detect both known and unknown content.
Product Updates Safer’s 2022 Impact Report In 2022, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM from their platforms.
Case Study Flickr Uses CSAM Image Classifier to Find Harmful Content Flickr’s Trust & Safety team uses Safer’s CSAM Image Classifier to detect and remove previously unknown child abuse content from their platform.
Product Updates Announcing RCMP Reporting via Safer Detect CSAM and send reports to Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Safer, an all-in-one solution for CSAM moderation.
Learn Safer’s Self-Hosted Deployment Provides Control, Security and Scalability Safer is a flexible suite of tools designed to support your company’s processes and scale your child sexual abuse material (CSAM) elimination efforts.
Learn Optimize CSAM Detection with SaferList Safer’s self-managed hashlists help customers optimize their CSAM detection. SaferList helps fill the gap between when new CSAM is reported and matched against.
Product Updates Safer’s 2021 Impact Report In 2021, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, report and remove CSAM from their content-hosting platforms.
Learn Four signs your platform should be proactively detecting child sexual abuse material If one of these signals applies to your platform, it’s worth taking a look at your company’s policies and procedures for handling CSAM. If any of these resonate for you, it might be time to consider proactive CSAM detection:
Blog Let’s Build a Better Internet for Every Child: Safer’s best-in-class technology is now available for anyone with an AWS Marketplace account In 2004, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reviewed roughly 450,000 child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, files. By 2019 that figure had exploded exponentially to nearly 70 million.
Learn Common Terms and Definitions List of common terms and definitions across the issue and technical space, alongside a global list of child protection organizations.
Product Updates Announcing Safer for Detection and Post-Detection of CSAM Our first version of Safer includes end-to-end functionality to support the identification, removal, and reporting of CSAM at scale and in real-time. Comprehensive coverage begins with proactive detection. Read more about the features we've released.
Learn Safer: Building the internet we deserve We began this journey almost a decade ago and the scale of the problem continues to grow. We're activating the larger technology ecosystem with tools to fight the spread of CSAM on platforms and eliminate it from the internet for good.
Learn A problem of epidemic proportions The New York Times published a four-part series tackling the intricacies of child sexual abuse material in 2019. We're sharing it as a resource alongside our insights on who this impacts most and how.
Quick Guides Platform Protection 101 Our starter guide for companies looking to institute policies and processes to actively combat the spread of CSAM on their platform.
