Five Countries Agree on Steps to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

On March 5, 2020, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced the publication of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (“Voluntary Principles”).  They announced 11 voluntary principles as online measures that companies in the technology industry can select to implement to protect the children who use their platforms from sexual abuse online and to make their platforms more difficult for child sex offenders to exploit.[1]