in place appropriate measures and mitigations to incentivize and enable participants to use the Lantern Program appropriately, and to identify and act upon instances when they do not. • Transparency is a critical component of the Tech Coalition’s governance approach for the Lantern Program, and it constitutes an important risk mitigation measure in itself. Lack of transparency may limit the effectiveness of the Lantern Program and lead to stakeholder skepticism. On the other hand, transparency may also come with risks—for example, by attracting governments and law enforcement to coerce the Tech Coalition or participating companies to share user information. Human Rights Impacts The Human Rights Impacts that the Lantern Program Seeks to Address This HRIA identi昀椀es the human rights risks associated with the Lantern Program and makes recommendations for how those risks should be addressed. However, it is essential to recognize that the Lantern Program addresses existing adverse human rights impacts related to OCSEA. OCSEA is one of the most severe known adverse human rights impacts associated with technology companies. In 2022, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received over 32 million reports containing approximately 88 million suspected child sexual exploitation images and videos. There has been an 82% rise in online grooming crimes against children in the last 昀椀ve years, and reports of online sextortion have almost tripled in 2023. OCSEA often results in serious adverse physical, emotional, and psychological impacts on victims and survivors, with children being a vulnerable group owing to their physical and mental immaturity. These adverse impacts can be lasting and continue long after the incident of abuse has ended, making remediation especially challenging. The Lantern Program seeks to enhance the capacity of the technology industry to combat OCSEA, and thereby address one of the most egregious known harms that exists in the industry. The Lantern Program helps companies ful昀椀ll their responsibility to address adverse human rights impacts with which they are already associated and will signi昀椀cantly increase their leverage to do so e昀昀ectively. BSR identi昀椀es the following eight categories of human rights that may be impacted with the use of the Lantern Program. Some of these categories have multiple human rights grouped together. • Child Safety and Protection: The Lantern Program seeks to promote the enjoyment of children’s right to protection from sexual abuse and exploitation by establishing effective procedures to identify, prevent, and mitigate threats to children’s safety on digital platforms. BSR TECH COALITION HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT 6