Security

Tagged is committed to making its community safe.

Since its founding in 2004, Tagged has designed features specifically to enhance the safety of its online members. Highlights of Tagged’s safety, security and privacy measures include:

• A dedicated 24X7 customer team who review and respond to member content and concerns.
• A strict policy that forbids abuse including but not limited to posting pornography, abusive messaging, contact between adults and members under 16, spamming and phishing.
• Oversight by safety and security advisor Hemanshu Nigam, former News Corp/MySpace Chief Security Officer, who spent 20 years as a child safety advocate. Nigam is a former Department of Justice Internet crimes prosecutor who held executive-level security positions at Microsoft and the Motion Picture Association of America.

Tagged is vigilant in its efforts to keep older members from contacting community members under the age of 16 and has partnered with law enforcement to help ensure safety for everyone. Specific steps Tagged has taken include:

Preventing Underage Users from Using Tagged

• Tagged’s Terms of Use dictate that members must be 13 yrs of age or
• Tagged prevents sign ups by users whose register under age 13 older to participate in its community.

Protecting Younger Members from Inappropriate Content

• Hosted images and videos are reviewed for compliance and inappropriate content is removed and blocked from the site.
• Member accounts are deleted for uploading nudity and pornographic images and videos.
• Groups are reviewed when inappropriate content is reported and shut down as required.
• Detailed IP logs are maintained for law enforcement teams who investigate abuse.

Reporting Inappropriate Content

• Members are encouraged to report content offenses directly to the Tagged Safety Squad.
• Members can provide reasons when reporting images for Terms of Service violations.
• Members can report spam messages, posts and inappropriate profiles to Tagged.

Providing Privacy Tools for all Members

• All members can set their profiles to Private.
• Members can pre-approve comments before they appear on their profiles.
• Members can block another member from contacting them.
• Members can conceal their ‘online now’ status.
• Members can remove their profiles from Tagged search results.

Partnering with Law Enforcement

• Ongoing support for local, state, and federal law enforcement in investigations and prosecutions.
• Training for crime units on how to investigate and prosecute cyber criminals using Tagged.
• Law Enforcement Guide created to help agencies understand Tagged and investigate cases.

Dedicated Support Channels

• Customer Care Team: Responds to all abuse complaints within 72 hours.
• Content Assurance Team: Ensures integrity of safety systems and flags potential flaws.
• Parent Care Team: Dedicated email (parentcare@tagged.com) and Parents Guide to Online Safety.
• Law Enforcement Team: Dedicated email (lawenforcement@tagged.com) and guidebook.
• Safety Squad Team: Dedicated safety team (safetysquad@tagged.com) who identifies potential problems and takes immediate action when safety issues occur.

Application Security and Data Collection

• All applications on Tagged are governed by the same privacy controls that are in place for members.
• All applications must use Tagged API’s, which have built-in security features.
• Tagged takes action against applications that violate safety and security requirements.

Ongoing Support of Government Legislation to Prevent Safety Issues

• Email Registration Legislation: Tagged supports federal and state legislation that would require registered sex offenders to register all of their email addresses, so that Tagged can block them from accessing Tagged in the first place.

These measures represent just a sampling of the steps Tagged has taken to protect its community’s safety and enforce its rules.