Our Results

Cybertip.ca is committed to reducing the victimization of children online. In addition to receiving and processing reports from the public and child sexual abuse material that is detected through Project Arachnid, the tipline also provides education resources to help keep children of all ages safe online.

Public Reporting:

• 384,000+
• 18+ million education and prevention resources distributed across Canada
• Educational page views: 27+ million
• Reports forwarded to a Canadian law enforcement agency or child welfare:
• reports actioned internationally: 130,200+
• 11,300+ reports about luring/grooming
• 3,100+ reports about sextortion
• 4,800+ reports about intimate images
• Countless

Project Arachnid:

• 157+ billion images processed
• 19+ million notices sent to providers
• 1,000+ providers spanning nearly 100 countries received notices

Reports From the Public Processed in 2021

Volume of reports processed by Cybertip.ca

(For the year 2021)

Excludes all Project Arachnid reports processed by Cybertip.ca

Volume of reports processed by Cybertip.ca for 2021 should not be compared to previous years as changes to the online public reporting form was modified to allow for multiple reports to be filed under a single submission.

Jurisdiction of origin, report to Cybertip.ca

(For the year 2021)

"International" includes but is not limited to reports from individuals outside of Canada concerned about the sexual exploitation of a child as well as reports of websites hosted in Canada from non-Canadian cybertip organizations.

Reports by incident type

(For the year 2021)

Of the victims reported to Cybertip.ca, 64% were female and 26% were male; the gender for 10% was unknown.

Reports forwarded to Canadian police/child welfare agencies

(For the year 2021)

Reports are sent to the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre ( NCECC ) when triage shows victim/person of interest resides outside of Canada.