Reference-data custodian and reporting institution connecting reviewed material with provider action

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children administers reference-sharing environments and publishes information about reports and provider notifications concerning suspected child exploitation. Its role includes maintaining access arrangements, communicating reviewed information and reporting correction work, alongside data that outside companies may independently reuse.

Access and a documented correction episode

Its API separates read-only and read-write permissions across industry, nonprofit and law-enforcement environments. A Concentrix review of a particular hash list identified 59 exceptions; Concentrix says NCMEC reported removing all of them within five business days. NCMEC valued the donated audit at $300,000, an in-kind figure rather than cash paid. Separate public tables report provider-submitted reports and reviewed outbound notifications, including some exploitative imagery below the child-sexual-abuse-material threshold and predatory text. These totals are not confirmed criminal incidents or permanent labels for entire companies.

What the records show

National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenNCMEC public outbound-notification tables — examined2021–2023 family

publishes reviewed-notice and response aggregates

Reporting2021–2023; first publication dates not established

Methodology describes staff visual review and tracked notifications, including repeated notices and possible upstream contacts.2023columns separate CSAM, non-CSAM exploitative images of identified victims and predatory text. Mixed response tables are not permanent whole-company labels or unique-incident counts.

National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenNCMEC2023 incoming CyberTipline report table

publishes provider-submitted report counts

Reporting2023

2023table counts incoming provider reports about suspected exploitation/apparent CSAM. Variation in detection/reporting and included information prevents reading totals as outbound notices or confirmed criminal domains.

National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenNCMEC reference-sharing environments

issues environment-specific credentials and permissions

Published API separates read-only/read-write permissions and industry/nonprofit/law-enforcement environments; no software licence alone supplies these credentials.

PhotoDNA Cloud terms and serviceNational Center for Missing & Exploited Children

authorizes customer-identified aggregate reporting

Cloud terms authorize aggregate match-count reporting to NCMEC; this does not replace customer legal reporting or prove any actual report.

Concentrix — audit providerNational Center for Missing & Exploited Children

was credited with a donated audit valued at $300000

2024-04-15 – 2024-04-15

NCMEC reports donated audit services valued at$300000; in-kind recipient valuation, not cash payment. Dollar currency not separately annotated in packet. Financial details: value: 300,000; currency: unknown; kind: reported in-kind valuation; period: Audit described April2024

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children2023 NCMEC list audit / reported correction

was reported to have removed the 59 notified exceptions

Concentrix says it notified NCMEC and was told all59 were removed in less than five business days. No independent deletion log or recipient-wide correction/restoration proof.

National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenTAG threat-exchange members — training recipient class

was reported to train threat-exchange members

2025report

TAG's visible report describes NCMEC training for threat-exchange members. No operational shared dataset, database access or training-content adoption is inferred.

National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenDV-described public NCMEC input — versions unknown

is named as public-data origin by DV

2025-02-13 – 2025-02-13

DV identifies public NCMEC data as a starting point. This does not establish direct supply agreement, endorsement or equivalence to NCMEC's hash-sharing resource.

Further reading

The February2025 pressure route into advertising defaults

DoubleVerify: customer choice, vendor defaults and review

NCMEC public tables: input meaning before an advertising exclusion

Microsoft PhotoDNA: software, hosted service and reference-data access

Reference hashes: permissions, retraction and an actual audit response

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What the connections say

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Concentrix — audit providerwas credited with a donated audit valued at $300000National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

2024-04-15 – 2024-04-15

Reported by the cited source

NCMEC reports donated audit services valued at$300000; in-kind recipient valuation, not cash payment. Dollar currency not separately annotated in packet.

Financial details: value: 300,000; currency: unknown; kind: reported in-kind valuation; period: Audit described April2024

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National Center for Missing & Exploited Childrenpublishes reviewed-notice and response aggregatesNCMEC public outbound-notification tables — examined2021–2023 family

Reporting2021–2023; first publication dates not established

Methodology describes staff visual review and tracked notifications, including repeated notices and possible upstream contacts.2023columns separate CSAM, non-CSAM exploitative images of identified victims and predatory text. Mixed response tables are not permanent whole-company labels or unique-incident counts.

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