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Bill to strengthen national tipline for missing and exploited children heads to Biden’s desk
A bipartisan bill designed to protect children from online sexual exploitation is headed to President Biden's desk. Proposed by Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
Proposed by Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC), the bill aims to strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal and the Stanford Internet Observatory, platforms mail CDs and thumb drives containing CSAM to NCMEC, where it’s manually uploaded into the nonprofit’s database. Instead of relying on decades-old storage methods, the bill also carves out a way for NCMEC to legally store data using commercial cloud computing services, which could make the process of assessing reports more efficient.
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