The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography (FCACP) is a coalition of
credit card issuers and
Internet services companies that seeks to eliminate commercial
child pornography by taking action on the payment systems that are used to fund these illegal operations.
In 2006, the
International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and a number of banks, credit card companies, and electronic and third party
payment network
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s created the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography.
The Financial Coalition consists of 34 banks, payment companies, and internet services companies.
["The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography (FCACP)"]
International Telecommunication Union
Senator
Richard C. Shelby
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(R-AL), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, was the catalyst in bringing these industry leaders together to address the problem.
Members of the Coalition include
America Online
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,
American Express Company
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,
Authorize.net,
Bank of America,
Capital One,
Chase
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Businesses
* Chase Bank, a national bank based in New York City, New York
* Chase Aircraft (1943–1954), a defunct American aircraft manufacturing company
* Chase Coaches, a defunct bus operator in England
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,
Citigroup
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,
Discover Financial Services LLC
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, First Data Corporation, First National Bank of Omaha,
Google, HSBC - NA,
JP Morgan Chase,
MasterCard,
Microsoft,
North American Bancard
North American Bancard (NAB) is a payments technology company founded in 1992 by CEO/President Marc Gardner, it is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. Its corporate office employs more than 1,200 people, plus, another 3,000 sales partners located t ...
, Nova Information Systems,
PayPal, First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard,
Standard Chartered Bank
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,
Visa,
Washington Mutual,
Wells Fargo, and
Yahoo! Inc.
This U.S.-based effort expanded regionally with the creation of the Asia Pacific Financial Coalition in August 2009. The Coalition's initial objective was to make people and companies aware of the issue of online child sexual abuse, and how its sale and distribution was being conducted across payment and technology platforms.
, ICMEC, September 2013
References
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External links
U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) press release: Shelby Leads Fight Against Child Pornography. March 15, 2006
*[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0316/p01s03-ussc.html The Christian Science Monitor. from the March 16, 2006 edition. "A siege on the child-porn market. Titans of finance join forces to try to thwart online trafficking in illicit images." By Ron Scherer, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor]
BBC News, Thursday, 16 March 2006, 12:22 GMT: "Net and finance firms are joining up to stamp out commercial child pornography"InformationWeek, Mar 17, 2006 01:17 PM "As Child Porn Industry Grows, Coalition Launches Counterattack" By J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek
* ttp://www.asacp.org/page.php?content=news&item=511 ASACP Participates in Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography November 20, 2007br>Preventing and Detecting Child Pornography Best Practices from the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography August 24, 2007
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Anti–child pornography organizations
Child welfare in the United States