"Her case and others are documented on sheets of paper laid out on school desks outside the European Union's headquarters in Brussels. It's part of a rally by children's rights campaigners, who are furious that the bloc's member states have once again delayed decisions on controversial online protection laws which would force tech companies to scan images, videos and links for evidence of child sexual abuse."
""In these three years of delay that's over 1200 days of negotiations a lot of children have fallen into the hands of perpetrators," Fabiola Bas Palomares, who leads policy work at the campaign group Eurochild, told DW. Around two-thirds of all child sexual abuse webpages detected by the Internet Watch Foundation last year were traced to an EU country, and globally more than 60 million pictures and videos linked to the sexual exploitation of minors were flagged online."
An eleven-year-old girl named Iris was groomed online and coerced into sending naked images under threats and blackmail. Children's rights campaigners held a rally outside EU headquarters to protest prolonged delays in passing laws that would require tech platforms to scan and report suspected child sexual exploitation. Campaigners warn that years of negotiation delays have exposed many children to perpetrators. Internet Watch Foundation data links a majority of detected child sexual abuse webpages to EU countries, and more than 60 million images and videos linked to sexual exploitation of minors were flagged worldwide. The proposals raise debates over platform duties and privacy concerns.
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