Canadian Centre for Child Protection Inc.

It was an honour to receive Mr. Jagmeet Singh at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection Inc. last week. Spreading awareness about the harms children face online is crucial, we look forward to continuing to work towards change to better protect Canada's youth!

Cybertip.ca has processed ~4K sexually explicit deepfake images of children in the past year. C3P's Signy Arnason explains we desperately need regulation. "There are serious traumatic repercussions for the impacted teen... we need people to take this more seriously." https://lnkd.in/dUjDSTJQ

How is this a serious attempt at safeguarding children and youth? What are these bad actors doing on the platform to begin with if they have previously been reported or blocked? These are band-aid measures when you consider how many youth are being aggressively targeted by sextorters and how many are dying by suicide. This isn't remotely good enough. "To stop scammers, Snap says it will now show a warning message in the app when teens receive a message from someone that others have blocked or reported, or when that person’s account is from a “region where the teen’s network isn’t typically located.” The warning presents options to report or block the person, or just tap “Okay” to chat with them." https://lnkd.in/gUaCnN6n

Incredibly proud to see the hard work of our very own Monique St. Germain highlighted by Lexpert, talking about the diverse and challenging work our legal team does every day. https://lnkd.in/g6VXREKm

💡 ‘The tool to take down child sexual abuse material is in our hands, we just have to use it’ 💻 Since 2020, as a part of #ProjectArachnid, #ProtectChildren Specialists have analysed over 1,756,617 images that depict child sexual abuse. Our significant work has directly contributed to the delivery of more than 1,376,640 removal notices being sent to electronic service providers in Finland and abroad. 🕸️🕷️Project Arachnid is an innovative tool developed by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection Inc. to combat child sexual abuse material (#CSAM) in digital environments. Project Arachnid scans the internet 24/7 to detect child sexual abuse material and, with the help of analysts, sends thousands of notices per day to hosting platforms to remove CSAM. 💚🌍 Project Arachnid’s removal strategy facilitates the healing process for #survivors helping them in seeking both justice and closure from their trauma. Learn more Protect Children's work in Project Arachnid: 🔗https://lnkd.in/dQ2VvmTp #EndCSAE #PreventionGlobal #Prevention #EndOCSEA #EndCSAM

This round up of headlines from the The Wall Street Journal says it all. Found at the end of Jeff Horwitz's piece today on Instagram recommending sexual videos to accounts for 13 year olds: https://lnkd.in/ghVXgSSb

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! We’re proud to keep working toward keeping all children safe and making our resources for safety accessible. So far, our Big Feelings Come and Go storybook is available in Ojibwe and Cree. https://lnkd.in/gHd5rf3J

Great reporting showing Meta saying one thing and doing another. Again. “According to Meta’s January announcement, teens under 16 aren’t supposed to be shown sexually explicit content at all.” Yet The Wall Street Journal and researchers found 13 year-olds accounts were exposed to Adult sex-content creators in “as little as three minutes”. Meta’s response? “This was an artificial experiment that doesn’t match the reality of how teens use Instagram.” But if no account under 16 is supposed to be shown sexually explicit content, why is ANY 13 year old account able to see it? And see a lot of it. https://lnkd.in/g-V6j7Kz

We put our children’s safety in the hands of government Every – Single –Day. Playgrounds, seatbelts, bike helmets, schooling requirements, food safety, regulations on toys… the list is endless. To say for some reason that government regulation should exist to protect our children in all spaces EXCEPT online is nonsensical. It’s also unrealistic; in no area of their lives do we monitor teens 24/7 – nor should we. We operate Cybertip.ca and NeedHelpNow.ca – every day we talk with youth and families who have been sexually victimized online. We work with parents who were totally vested in their child’s safety and they were still exploited online – they talked to their kids, they had rules around social media use, they kept up with online risks. To simply say their child was exploited because they weren’t involved enough lacks an understanding of what kids are facing online – the tactics and level of sexual violence and aggression toward kids is off the charts. AND to suggest tech platforms do not have a role in ensuring their platforms are safe for their users is simply wrong.   https://lnkd.in/g7YsejrG

We’re seeing an alarming ⬆️ in reports of sexually explicit deepfakes-made with AI-being used to exploit youth online. With Ontario Provincial Police, we’re releasing new resources for parents & teachers to help talk to youth before summer when they spend more time online. https://lnkd.in/gvPbtz6w