Google Joins Technology Coalition Against Child Pornography

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and its sister agency, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), have announced that Google has joined the Technology Coalition and the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, two critical industry initiatives to fight commercial child pornography over the Internet.

The Technology Coalition against Child Pornography which includes AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, EarthLink, Google, and United Online, enhances knowledge sharing among industry participants, improve law enforcement tools, and research perpetrators’ technologies in order to enhance industry efforts and build solutions. The Financial Coalition is a group of leading banks, credit card companies, third party payment companies, and Internet services companies working to stop the flow of funds to child pornography web sites.

CyberTipline, managed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, is a reporting mechanism for cases of child sexual exploitation where reports may be made 24-hours per day, 7 days per week online at www.cybertipline.com or by calling 1-800-843-5678.