The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has developed model legislation that would require mobile phone and smart device manufacturers to install active filtering software on all of the devices they produce and require sellers to verify and ensure that each device they sell has this active filtering software in place.

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In the digital age, child safety and well-being are often an afterthought behind the goals of technological advancement and profits. Corporate and governmental policies regarding social media platforms, apps, Internet-connected devices like phones and tablets, and centralized DNS encryption (as planned by Google and Mozilla) are systematically slow to recognize their impact on predatory access and grooming of children for sexual abuse, childhood pornography exposure, sex trafficking, and traffic in child sexual abuse images and videos.

It is vital that technology policy is shaped with these considerations in mind.