Working Together to End Child Sexual Abuse Materials Online

What can your financial institution, tech company, or marketplace platform do to help prevent the online exploitation of children?

Listen in on this thought-provoking conversation between ecommerce expert Erin Brusseau and Guillermo Galarza Abizaid, VP of Partnership and Law Enforcement Training at the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children as they dive into the pressing issue of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). 

Brusseau emphasizes that addressing this difficult topic is imperative for tech companies, law enforcement, and financial institutions. This is because we have a unique opportunity to collaborate to combat CSAM, with a focus on proactive detection, policy reform, and global awareness. 

“The number of child exploitation cases are tremendously increasing,” said Abizaid. “There are 36 million reports of online child exploitation, and that is globally.” He explained that about 98 percent of these reports are in countries that lack the legislation and infrastructure to deal with this type of activity and where many of the offenders belong to large criminal networks, highlighting the urgent need for global capacity building. 

The fight against child sexual abuse material 

The payments industry is uniquely positioned to stop CSAM online. Wondering how you can help? Here are some of the valuable insights you'll gain from this session:

• The role of businesses, including why ecommerce and marketplace platforms must collaborate as well as engage in proactive detection and awareness campaigns, to stop CSAM.
• The difference between “CSAM” and “child pornography” and why it’s important to use the right terminology.
• How the combination of global and local policy reform can strengthen the fight against child exploitation.
• The specialized industry training for content moderators and payment risk teams should seek out to identify patterns of exploitation.
• The importance of international capacity building.

Watch the full video to learn more about how our industry can make the internet safer for children.