The Tech Against Terrorism Trustmark

The Trustmark is step three of our 4-step programme to support the tech industry.

Tech Against Terrorism’s Eight Requirements of Membership

Based on our consultations with the industry, academia, and civil society, we have developed Eight Requirements which we believe will help companies tackle the terrorist exploitation of the internet while, respecting human rights.

  1. Completion of the Tech Against Terrorism Assessment Tools (Risk and Mitigation)
  2. Agree with the Tech Against Terrorism Pledge
  3. Commit to adding explicit prohibition of terrorism in Terms of Service
  4. Commit to improve transparency reporting
  5. Confirm the ability to receive and action reports relating to usage of their service in a timely fashion
  6. Confirm the ability to receive user appeals for users to be able to contest takedowns they believe are not justified
  7. Nominate a point of contact for counterterrorism issues within the company
  8. Commit to exploring the new technological solutions including machine learning
  9. Consider working with civil society on counternarrative initiatives and positive campaigns

Trustmark

To qualify for use of the Trustmark and membership of Tech Against Terrorism, companies will be asked to agree with all of the above 8 criteria . Upon review and acceptance by our team, your organization will then be granted use of the official Tech Against Terrorism Trustmark (inset-below). This signifies your adherence to our requirements of membership.