Julie Cordua
Digital safety advocate | Combating online child exploitation
About
Julie Cordua has dedicated her career to one of the internet's most pressing challenges: eliminating child sexual abuse material from digital platforms. Her work addresses the complex intersection of technology, policy, and child protection in the digital age.
Speaking at TED 2019, Cordua presented her insights on how we can systematically remove child sexual abuse material from the internet, sharing strategies and solutions for tackling this critical issue. Her expertise spans the technical, legal, and ethical dimensions of online safety, with a particular focus on protecting children in digital spaces.
Through her work, she has become a recognized voice in the fight against online exploitation, bringing together stakeholders from technology companies, law enforcement, and advocacy organizations to create more effective approaches to digital child protection.
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How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet
Social entrepreneur Julie Cordua works on a problem that isn't easy to talk about: the sexual abuse of children in images and videos on the internet. At Thorn, she's building technology to connect the dots between the tech industry, law enforcement and government -- so we can swiftly end the viral distribution of abuse material and rescue children faster. Learn more about how this scalable solution could help dismantle the communities normalizing child sexual abuse around the world today. (This ambitious plan is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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