Online child sexual exploitation and abuse has been a major violation of children’s rights for many years; it has been further increasing since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past decade multi-national service providers deployed technology for the automated detection of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) that there uploaded or disseminated via their services. 

The aim of the workshop is to continue the search for solutions that permit governments to meet their positive obligation to protect children against online sexual violence and enable service providers to use automated technologies to identify and report CSAM with the necessary privacy, data protection and rule of law safeguards.