#KEEPKIDSSAFEONLINE
Facebook & Child Sexual Abuse Online
May 28 2021
Facebook hit by shareholders revolt over 'dangerous playground' encryption plan
May 26 2021
SURVIVOR OF FACEBOOK-FACILITATED CHILD PREDATOR ABUSE TELLS SHAREHOLDER TO "DELAY END-TO-END ENCRYPTION" UNTIL PLATFORM CAN ADEQUATELY PROTECT CHILDREN
May 2021
Facebook Shareholders Resolution presented at Annual Meeting
May 4 2021
Facebook: Don't Expect full end-to-end encryption on Messenger until 2022 'at the earliest'
April 30 2021
March 17 2021
Yahoo News, Online Child Predator Numbers Skyrocket During Pandemic
February 3 2021
CNN, What We Know About The Florida Raid That Led to 2 Agents' Deaths
January 21 2021
Facebook Admits Encryption Will Harm Efforts To Prevent Child Exploitation
January 20 2021
France Arrests 14 Suspects in Sweep Against Child Sexual Abuse Online
December 4 2020
Barron's: Investors Are Pushing Facebook to Do More to Curb Child Exploitation on Its Platform
October 11 2020
DOJ—International Statement: End-to-End Encryption and Public Safety
July 30 2020
Facebook Shareholders Open Letter to Facebook Advertisers
Facebook Shareholders Press Release
June 9 2020
May 27 2020
May 27 2020
Facebook Shareholders Resolution
presented at Annual Meeting
May 22 2020
May 20 2020
Press Release May 2020 News Conference
March 17 2020
Facebook at Center of Storm Over Child Sexual Exploitation Online
March 5 2020
February 2020
NGO Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
February 6 2020
October 3 2019
End-to-end encryption will make it harder for Facebook to identify child abuse
March 6 2019
News & Updates of
#KeepKidsSafeOnline
Survivor Sarah Cooper Speaks Out at Facebook Shareholders Annual Meeting
NEW YORK – May 26 2021
A survivor of child abuse and exploitation who was approached on a Facebook platform urged shareholders today at the company’s annual meeting to delay plans to move ahead with end-to-end encryption that would see Facebook “become one of the world’s most dangerous playgrounds’ for children.”
That warning was delivered today by Sarah Cooper, who was approached as a teenager through Facebook Messenger, met a predator in Boston and New York City, and was sold into sex slavery.
Read Sarah Coopers' full statement in the attached document:
Help Sarah Cooper
Keep Kids Safe Online!
ABOUT
Over the past few years, a coalition of women from the Women's Inclusion Project has been working with other women investors and with a coalition of other investment firms, as well as ICCR and with Christian Brothers Investment Services, on a number of shareholder engagements. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) online has been growing at an explosive rate. This is an important issue, and we want to raise investor awareness. As shareholders in Facebook, we are concerned about regulatory risk, in particular. This is how #KeepKidsSafeOnline was born.
The key ask in our resolution is for a board-level report assessing the risk of increased sexual exploitation of children as the Company develops and offers additional privacy tools, such as end-to-end encryption. Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that end-to-end encryption will make it harder for Facebook to identify child abuse on the platform. It turns out we were prescient on filing our resolution, as there has been a recent related bipartisan bill in the Senate, the Earn-It Act, which puts pressure on tech companies relative to their exemption from liability for third-party content on their sites related to child abuse. There is likely to be further pressure on revenue and government regulation associated with this issue area.
Reports of child sexual exploitation in 2020 rose 28% from 2019 levels. Last year, there were a total of 21.7 million reports, involving more than 65.4 million images, videos and other files containing suspected child sexual abuse material...
Michael Passoff of Proxy Impact (2021)
on the problem of child abuse and exploitation problem at Facebook
We are proud of our friend and ally Cathy Rowan, who was a panelist on the UN High Level Political Forum 2020 Virtual Event: Stop Child Abuse in Social Media!
"The yearly event, known as the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, held this year from July 7 to July 16, provides a venue for U.N. member countries to highlight local progress as well as an opportunity for advocates to address concerns".
WHO WE ARE
#KeepKidsSafeOnline is a project of the Women’s Inclusion Project (WIP). WIP utilizes gender lens investment strategies to support women and girls. Our partner Proxy Impact provides shareholder advocacy and proxy voting services for impact investors. Together we engage companies to increase board gender diversity, expand the number of women in senior management, eliminate gender pay disparities, and stop online child sexual exploitation.
If you would like to be an ally, please see the contact information below.
One Third of Internet users are children and 800 million kids now are on social media.
Help Us Protect
Our Children
Facebook's planned encryption, warning that it will cloak the actions of child predators and make children more vulnerable to sexual abuse. By moving to end-to-end encryption without first taking steps to stop child sexual abuse on its platforms, Facebook will effectively make invisible 70 percent of CSAM cases – an estimated 12 million instances – that are currently being detected and reported.
The Pope Urges Investors
to Join Fight Against Child Exploitation Online
RESOURCES
FRIENDS OF #KKSO
ORGANIZATIONS
GOVERNMENT
Department of Justice
Keeping Kids Safe During Covid-19
Rep Smith: Pandemic Makes Women and Children More Vulnerable to Trafficking
Interpol (Crimes Against Children)
Interpol (Keeping Children Safe Online)
Europol (Child Sexual Exploitation)
PREVENT, DETECT, SUPPORT
endsexualexploitation.org/survivorresources/ (National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)
Resources for Surivors of Sexual Abuse Materials (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)
IWF (Internet Watch Foundation)
ICT Co
SELECTED BLOG POSTS, PODCASTS & ARTICLES
The Children of Pornhub (New York Time Article)
Boston Globe Magazine: Survivor Sarah Cooper's Roadmap for keeping kids safe from online predators
Boston Globe Magazine: As an underage teen, she was exploited by a sexual predator online. Then he came after her in the real world.
The Lion Within: Sex Trafficking Survivors Speak Out
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