"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 was groomed online and coerced into sending naked images under threats of exposure, resulting in prolonged sexual extortion. Children's rights campaigners held a rally outside EU headquarters, displaying victims' cases and protesting delays by member states on proposed online protection laws. The proposed laws would require tech platforms to scan images, videos, and links for evidence of child sexual abuse and report suspected cases. Campaigners cite high prevalence: around two-thirds of detected child sexual abuse webpages were traced to EU countries, and over 60 million abusive images and videos were flagged globally last year. Privacy concerns and misinformation about the laws circulate online.
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