Membership criteria
Tech Coalition members share a deep commitment to combating online child sexual exploitation – both on their own platforms and through industry-wide collaboration.
To ensure meaningful participation and accountability, all applicants and current members must meet the following nine criteria:
Business requirements
Members must be technology related companies and have at least one product or service that could reasonably be affected by child sexual exploitation.
Members must be committed to taking appropriate steps to mitigate such abuse as evidenced by the criteria below.
Membership will not be open to vendor companies whose main business is providing content moderation tooling and moderation services to other companies, but who do not host or provide access to content themselves.
Commitments
Members must have a desire to combat OCSEA and to help expand the capacity of the tech industry to combat OCSEA.
Published standards
Members must prohibit child sexual exploitation and abuse material in their terms of service, community guidelines, or other publicly available policies or statements.
Reporting
Members must be able to receive reports of and take action, as appropriate, on illegal OCSEA.
Technical solutions
Members commit to helping further technological approaches to mitigating OCSEA.
Transparency
Members support transparency and accountability in the fight against OCSEA.
Relevant frameworks
Members commit to respect for human rights and children’s rights and familiarize themselves with relevant international policy frameworks and codes of practice relating to OCSEA.
Partnerships with civil society
Members commit to engaging with civil society groups, including those who represent the voices of survivors, researchers, and legal, privacy, and other relevant experts.
Commitment to engage
Members commit to actively engage in the Tech Coalition’s mission, including participation in membership meetings, seminars, and working groups.
Meet our criteria and want to find out more?
Contact our Membership Development team to learn more about the benefits of membership and the application process.
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