Communication|Last year, Save the Children received more than 20,000 tips about sexual violence against children online.
Save me In the opinion of the Lapset organization, in the discussion of the last few days regarding the monitoring of citizens’ online communication from the CSAM setting why the regulation is being enacted has been overshadowed.
A regulation being prepared in the EU aims to prevent the dissemination of material showing sexual abuse of children online.
If the regulation passes, it will interfere with the protection of privacy and confidentiality of communications. Now we are debating how extensive the monitoring would be and what kind of threat it would be in terms of citizens’ communication.
In the discussion, the main focus has been on threat images related to the protection of communications. However, Save the Children would like to highlight the child’s right to a life free of violence.
“It’s as if we’ve forgotten how extensive and serious a phenomenon and problem it is when we talk about sexual violence against children online,” says the organization’s director of public relations Brother Liikanen.
At issue is, according to Liikanen, an ever-growing problem.
The Save the Children organization has a Nettipihe service, where you can make a report online about material proving sexual violence against children or related activities online. Last year, the service processed more than 20,000 tips.
According to Liikanen, more than half of the children in Finland say that adults approach them online in an inappropriate or harassing way.
“The basic situation is that the protection of children in the online environment has failed. We have built an internet where children feel threatened.”
According to Liikanen, materials circulating online can have lifelong effects on children’s lives.
Save me Children, like other organizations focused on children’s rights, hopes that the EU would be able to build legislation that addresses the problem.
“The primary goal should be to protect children from violence,” says Veli Liikanen.
“Also, the protection of the privacy of the children who are victims of these crimes has been significantly violated, and it is being violated all the time.”
According to him, balancing between different fundamental rights is part of normal legislative work.
“It should not be startled or startled. There are now many rounds of legislative preparation behind us, and our point of view is that all the time better consideration has been given to message encryption and issues related to privacy protection.”
At risk is that unless new legislation is enacted soon, children will soon have no protection online.
The protection of children from online sexual violence is now based on a temporary regulation, but it will expire in 2026. The Save the Children organization hopes that the new regulation will enter into force well before then.
The organization hopes to supplement the regulation so that it would continue to include the right to identify illegal material, which is based on the voluntary nature of network service providers.
It would cover more widely the identification of sexual violence. It would also extend to new material emerging all the time and to so-called grooming, i.e. a situation where an adult prepares for the sexual abuse of a child by creating a relationship of affection and trust with the child.
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