Dear Friend,

As you're likely well aware, technology has opened many positive ways for children to grow and learn, but it has also unleashed a Pandora’s Box of threats to their well-being. Children can now gain access to depictions of almost any type of sexual behavior from almost anywhere as well as become easy prey for child predators stalking the internet.

One of our main goals is to protect children from harm. With your help, this year we made the digital world safer for children than ever before.

Here's just a few ways we did that with your partnership:

 

Following five years of advocacy, including placing them on the 2021 Dirty Dozen List, Google has defaulted all Chromebooks and Google products used for K-12 education to safety!

Safe Search and other filters are flipped on by default for their most vulnerable users. This decision impacts millions of children worldwide!

 

Earlier this year, Facebook announced that it would launch “Instagram for Kids” targeting children under the age of 13.

NCOSE joined with our allies, urging Facebook to not move forward with its plans. After a public outcry, Facebook announced that they would pause their plans.

 

The NCOSE Law Center filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against Twitter for its complicity in sex trafficking by knowing about and profiting from child sexual abuse material of two young boys.

A federal judge allowed the lawsuit to move forward—the first time a lawsuit of any kind against Twitter has advanced past their motion to dismiss.

 

After UNICEF published a report that minimized the harm of child pornography exposure, NCOSE, along with 487 child safety experts and advocates from 26 countries, sent UNICEF a letter which resulted in UNIFEF removing the report and recognizing the harm on their website.

 

We are dedicated to continue holding Big Tech accountable for their inability to protect people, in particular millions of children, from online dangers.

Instead of creating more avenues for exploitation and harm, Big Tech should invest in making existing products safer by defaulting to safety standards and cleaning up the content kids are exposed to on their platforms.

If kids have to grow up in a world demanding their use of technology, their well-being should be prioritized, not sacrificed for the sake of profit.

We won't stop until Big Tech meets adequate standards to protect and prioritize our kids.

Onward!

Dawn Hawkins

CEO

P.S. All donations will be TRIPLED through the end of the year!

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