Tech Coalition

🚨 We’re hiring! The Tech Coalition is seeking a Communications Specialist to help amplify our mission of uniting the tech industry to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse. 🌍 In this key role, you'll collaborate with leading tech companies to drive meaningful change and communicate the impact of our collective efforts. **Position details:** - Must be U.S. East Coast-based (strong preference for Washington, D.C.) If you or someone in your network is passionate about storytelling and social impact, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now or share with those who might be interested: https://lnkd.in/eGe3dPdn #Hiring #Communications #TechForGood #DigitalSafety #ChildSafety

🆕 We’ve added a resource to our Pathways Resource Hub, supporting employees of technology companies to build the foundations of a Trust & Safety program. How to Start an Online Child Safety Program provides a high level overview of the first steps to put in place for combating online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). We launched Pathways last month with three initial guides:  ➡ How to write External Standards that prohibit OCSEA ➡ How to draft child safety Content Policies ➡ How to report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or OCSEA to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Find out more and apply to Pathways 🔗 ⤵ https://lnkd.in/ePDjVS4F

Today we announced that Lantern is expanding to the financial sector. Block and Western Union have joined a pilot to see if ingesting signals from the tech industry will help stop financially motivated online child sexual exploitation and abuse, such as financial sextortion. Lantern has also grown to now include 21 participants. See more here: https://lnkd.in/eRZ2Cu2P

Our research partner Safe Online published a recap of their workshop at this year's TrustCon led by Natalie Shoup and Kay Chau. Read the insights here and learn why the word "bridge" was a key takeaway: https://lnkd.in/e4ybXXS4. #childsafety #OCSEA

If you're at Crimes Against Children Conference, join us this afternoon for a workshop on how to submit record requests to tech companies. Hear industry representatives from Bumble Inc., Snap Inc. and VSCO® explain how they respond to requests and what the common terms and data fields mean.

And that's a wrap on TrustCon 2024! More to come about all of the fantastic child safety track events that took place over the last few days, but first up a special #thankyou to our keynote panelists Courtney G., Camille François, Jeffrey S. Collins, and Nell McCarthy who shared career advice and inspiring words about their work as part of the Tech Coalition. They even shared some best practices for how T&S professionals can age gracefully! #childsafety #trustandsafety

Transparency and accountability is a key part of the Tech Coalition's coordinated action plan to drive the technology industry’s efforts to fight online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). That’s why in 2022, we launched Trust: Voluntary Framework for Industry Transparency, and promised to revisit it in two years. Since then, we’ve seen changes in the regulatory landscape, the emergence of new technologies and harm types, and firsthand learnings from industry adoption of the Trust Framework. Today we’ve released a new resource on transparency reporting focused on the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) as well as updated the existing Framework. The Tech Coalition worked with Tremau, a Trust & Safety solution provider and expert on the DSA, to create the supporting resource on complying with the DSA’s transparency requirements for OCSEA. This guide outlines DSA requirements for different tiers of services, as well as highlights areas of overlap between the DSA and the Framework. The Framework, DSA compliance resource, and other supporting materials can all be found on the Tech Coalition’s Knowledge Hub. https://lnkd.in/emBfjwFJ #transparency #accountability #onlinesafety #DigitalServicesAct

TrustCon 2024 is underway and we are thrilled to be here sponsoring the child safety track. Our own Sean Litton will present this afternoon on Lantern. Come learn more about the first-ever child safety signal-sharing program. See you there! #trustandsafety #tspa #childsafety #OCSEA

Welcome to the Tech Coalition Spotify! Check out the company's announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e6fDAEC8.

Exciting news for tech Trust and Safety professionals: Introducing Pathways! Today the Tech Coalition launched Pathways: expert advice, resources and learning opportunities for the tech industry to further build capacity to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). This program is available to all tech industry employees, not just Tech Coalition members, to facilitate and promote knowledge sharing of basic trust and safety practices that can be used to fight OCSEA and help protect young people online. Pathways provides access to a resource hub, invitations to discussions with experts on child safety topics, the ability to license child safety technology, and more. The Pathways resource hub currently includes expert guides on topics, such as: How to write External Standards that prohibit OCSEA, which typically include Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, How to draft child safety Content Policies, How to report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or OCSEA to the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Over time, additional resources will be added to the hub and discussion topics will be announced. Pathways also provides access to the Tech Coalition Membership Development program, which can be a first step in setting the foundation of a comprehensive trust and safety program, built around industry best practices and criteria for Tech Coalition membership. The membership development program will launch later this year. We look forward to helping you choose your pathway. Visit https://lnkd.in/eFQf-ZwV to sign up! #trustandsafety #childsafety