CSAM
CSAM is the term used for images or videos that show the sexual abuse of children; producing, sharing, or possessing it is a serious crime in most countries. For parents, the essential step is knowing where to report suspected material rather than investigating it themselves — see the official source below.
The term is deliberately narrower than the everyday vocabulary it displaced: it names the material by what it records — abuse — rather than by how it circulates. That distinction is what makes the legal and the reporting framing agree with each other.
The authority linked below is a national body with its own remit, not a worldwide one. How a report is passed from one country to another is not established by it, and is not described here.
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