Regional workshop
“Protecting children against
sexual exploitation and sexual
abuse through Internet”
Kyiv, 7 – 8 December 2010
Dr. Michael Busch
European Commission
Information Society and Media Directorate General /
Unit E.06 (Safer Internet & eContent)
Luxembourg
Risks
Risks for children using the
Internet and mobile phones
are not only about sexual abuse
Classification of the nature of risks
and behaviours from the
perspective of child:
• Content
• Contact
• Conduct
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Risks
Content
Child as recipient of general information,
for example:
• Advertising, spam, gaming
• Violent/gruesome/hateful content
• Pornographic/harmful sexual content,
including manga cartoons
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Risks
Contact
Child targeted as participant in one-on-one activity, for
example:
• Being bullied, harassed or stalked
• Tracking/ harvesting personal information – misuse of this
data, blackmailing
• Self-harm, unwelcome persuasion
• Children groomed online for sexual abuse offline
• Children sold online for sexual abuse both online and offline
• Children made the subjects of child abuse images
• Children abused through prostitution using the Internet and
mobile phones to contact their abusers
• Adults or young people who engage in ‘cybersex’ with
children
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Risks
Conduct
Child as actor initiating abusive or risky
behaviour, for example:
• Creating/ uploading pornographic material
• Bullying or harassing another person
• Young people sharing personal information
online
• Young people who place (indecent) images of
themselves or other young people
(unwanted) online
• Children who download sexually abusive
images of children
• Children meeting ‘friends’ met online
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To deal with Risks
1- Legislative Framework
2- Law Enforcement (police)
3- Strategies, awareness,
education
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Quality content for children
Educational content
The good side of the Internet
A long-term objective of the Safer
Internet programme: Stimulating the
production and take-up of positive
content online
ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT
PSP): funding online educational
content
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European Award for Best Children's
Online Content
Promoting Quality Online Content for children
14 EU countries take part in
the first European contest
of that kind
2.nd concrete outcome: Inventory for producers and providers
of online content for children and young people
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To deal with Risks
1- Legislative Framework
2- Law Enforcement (police)
3- Strategies, awareness,
education
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Legislative Framework
Protect children better in the legal
systems
Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA of 22 December 2003 on
combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
Commission made, on 29 March 2010, a proposal for a
Directive on combating the sexual abuse, sexual
exploitation of children and child pornography
[COM(2010)94] (now in EP)
Takes up many points of CoE Convention on the
Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and
Sexual Abuse (CETS 201)
Objectives:
• Better harmonization of criminal law rules in the
Member States - establish minimum rules concerning
the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in the
area of sexual exploitation of children
• Sanction new behaviours, e.g. grooming
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Legislative Framework – what should
be punished?
Some examples
• Engaging in sexual activities with a
child
• Causing / recruiting / exploiting a
child
- to participate in pornographic
performances
- to participate in child prostitution
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Legislative Framework
Some examples
•
Production of child pornography
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Distribution, making available, dissemination or transmission of
child pornography
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Acquisition or possession of child pornography
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Obtaining access, by means of information and communication
technology, to child pornography
•
Grooming: The proposal, by means of information and
communication technology, by an adult to meet a child for the
purpose of committing sexual offences
…and many more criminal behaviours
Support to the child victim
EU Member States shall assist and support child victims in their
physical and psycho-social recovery
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To deal with Risks
1- Legislative Framework
2- Law Enforcement (police)
3- Strategies, awareness,
education
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Safer Internet Policy
Components
Prevention
Awareness
Stakeholder commitment
The following figures might
Education
disturb you…
Research
EU Safer
Internet
= The
EU Safer program
Internet program
Reaction
•
•
•
•
• Legislation
• Law enforcement
= EU judicial and security policy
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Safer Internet program
Fighting against production, distribution and
consumption of child abuse images online
•44% of child abuse images depict the rape or torture of a child
•70% of the child victims under the age of 10 (source: IWF)
•International dimension makes it harder to combat
•Multi-faceted distribution
– Commercial sites
– Peer-to-peer
– “old methods” (mail)
– New methods (mobiles)
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Safer Internet program
Fighting against Child sexual abuse
images on the Internet
The EU Safer Internet program
Europe-wide (and global) network:
Network of Hotlines to fight illegal content in 24 EU
countries, 32 world-wide
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Safer Internet program
INHOPE Members –
a growing global network
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Chinese Taipei
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Germany
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
ACMA 1999
Stopline 1999
Child Focus 2001
ARC Fund 2006
cybertip.ca 2005
ECPAT Taiwan 2005
CNTI 2008
Our Child
Foundation 2007
Red Barnet 2002
STC Finland 2002
AFA 1999
ECO 1999
FSM 1999
jugendschutz.net
1999
SafeNet 2004
MATISZ 2005
Barnaheill 2001
ISPAI 1999
HOT 114 2006
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Russia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
United Kingdom
United States of
America
STC Italy 2003
Internet Association Japan 2007
Secretariat of Special Assignments
Minister for Electronic Government
Affairs 2008
Communications Regulatory
Authority of the Republic of
Lithuania 2008
LISA Stopline 2008
Meldpunt 1999
NASK 2006
FCCN 2007
Friendly RuNET Foundation
2009
National Internet-Safety Node
in Russia 2009
Spletno Oko 2007
Film Publication Board 2009
KISCOM 2003
Protegeles 2002
Internet Watch Foundation 1999
Cybertipline 1999
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Safer Internet program
Fighting child sexual abuse images
on the Internet
European hotlines process about
110,000 reports annually. About
30,000 reports are forwarded to
police agencies.
Latest hotline statistics:
Child sexual abuse content
identified on ISPs in 49 countries
(1 Jan to 30 June 2010)
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Safer Internet program
Fighting child sexual abuse images
on the Internet
EU Action on notifying and taking
down illegal child sexual abuse
content at the ISPs
EU Action on blocking access to
such web sites at the ISPs
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To deal with Risks – Law
Enforcement
Questions:
• How many police officers do investigations in
child sexual abuse images on the Internet in
your country?
• How many police officers in your country
have done updated technical training on such
investigation in the Internet and are
proficient in English?
What to do?
Dedicate more resources to investigating
Internet-related child sexual abuse
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To deal with Risks – Law
Enforcement
EU Safer Internet program develops
technological tools to support police
investigations, ex.:
• Tools to facilitate analysis of evidence
material on seized computers
• Tools to help Law Enforcement in fighting
p2p (file sharing) paedophile exchanges
What to do?
Make your police officers to use these tools
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Safer Internet program
INTERPOL ICEDB – Example for Technical
Projects
= Pilot and pre EC Project Countries Connected
= EC Project Countries Accredited & Connected
= EC Project Countries Awaiting Accreditation & Connection
To deal with Risks
1- Legislative Framework
2- Law Enforcement (police)
3- Strategies, awareness,
education
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The EU Safer Internet program “soft” measures
Action areas
• Ensuring public awareness of
online risks and precautions
• Education
• Industry self-regulation
• Talk to stakeholders
• Research on trends, risks,
behaviours
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The EU Safer Internet program “soft” measures
Action areas
• Ensuring public awareness of
online risks and precautions
• Education
• Industry self-regulation
• Talk to stakeholders
• Research on trends, risks,
behaviours
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Public awareness / Annual flagship event
Safer Internet Day 2010
Think before you post!”
Encourage youngsters to think about
potential consequences of what they post
online about themselves and about others,
especially pictures and videos
Celebrated in +/- 65 countries
non-EU: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic,
Egypt, Estonia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya,
Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Moldova, New
Zealand, Paraguay, Qatar, Russian Federation, Senegal,
Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan,
Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela
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Safer Internet Day
8th edition
8 February 2011
• Slogan: It’s more than a game, it’s your life!
• Main focus: virtual worlds, online games, social
networking sites
• Key messages
– Hiding behind your avatar, pseudo or profile
page will not shield you
– Your actions in your virtual life can impact on
your real life
– Anything you post is permanent
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Safer Internet Day 2011
INSAFE initiatives
• Toolkit for potential partners that would
like to take part in Safer Internet Day
2011 by organizing activities
• Promotional video to be launched before
Safer Internet Day
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Safer Internet Day 2011
INSAFE initiatives
• INSAFE EU campaign to get youngsters
directly involved
• Activities at national and local level of
the Safer Internet Centres across Europe
What to do? – Support organisations in your
country to participate in Safer Internet Day
Get into contact with INSAFE
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Safer Internet program
Awareness campaigns
Replication of materials in other countries
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Polish “Child in the Web” national campaign
(2004) – achieved high visibility (83 % of
population)
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TV spot, radio spots, posters, leaflets
translated and adapted for campaigns in
Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania and Latvia
•
For ex.: in Bulgaria the TV spot “You never
know who is on the other side” was
broadcasted in 3 national and 9 cable TV
stations
•
All materials were handed over free of
charge
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Bulgaria
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Albania
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The EU Safer Internet program “soft” measures
Action areas
• Ensuring public awareness of
online risks and precautions
• Education
• Industry self-regulation
• Talk to stakeholders
• Research on trends, risks,
behaviours
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Safer Internet program
Education
Online Safety in school curricula
Safer Internet Forum (Luxembourg 22/23 Oct
2009) focused on "Promoting online safety
in school”
Online Safety teaching: inform children on the
potential risks online – such as grooming,
cyber-bullying, privacy, harmful content –
and empower children to use the Internet
and mobile phones responsibly
Participants:
Stakeholders from NGOs, governments,
researchers, industries, mobile network
operators, social networking sites, software
developers, teachers, parent associations,
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young people (Youth Panel) etc.
Safer Internet program
Education
Online Safety in school curricula
Clear results of consultation:
• Online Safety needs to be taught in schools
from as early an age as possible
• This is not the case in all EU Member States
• Online Safety often NOT available in the
school curricula
• Teachers with specific training on the
subject often not there
Source: Eurydice report (Dec 2009): Education on Online Safety in
Schools in Europe
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Safer Internet program
Education: Online Safety in school curricula
- the ex. of Latvia
The Latvian Safer Internet Centre (SIC):
• set up a Teacher Panel as an advisory board
Actions in cooperation with Ministry of Education:
• Internet Safety Handbook for teachers
• Test for students of the 6th grade about their
knowledge of internet safety - 13,990 students
participated
• Educational online game for children aged 11-12 to
teach risks on the internet - game promoted through
schools
• Pre-school pedagogy students develop teaching
materials on internet safety in kindergartens
• Pedagogy students trained for Internet Safety
lessons in schools
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The EU Safer Internet program “soft” measures
Action areas
• Ensuring public awareness of
online risks and precautions
• Education
• Industry self-regulation
• Talk to stakeholders
• Research on trends, risks,
behaviours
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Safer Internet program
Self-regulation
Self-regulation: Mobile phones
European framework for safer mobile use by
younger teenagers and children
Signed by 16 leading mobile providers and
content providers on 6 February 2007,
initiated by the Commission.
 96% of all EU mobile customers covered
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The Safer Internet program
Self-regulation
The EU Safer Social Networking Principles
The Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU = a selfregulatory agreement to ensure the online safety on
minors using social networking services, signed by 21
companies (e.g. Facebook, MySpace)
7 Principles covering:
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Awareness raising
Age-appropriate services
Empowering users
Mechanisms for reporting conduct and/or content
that violates the Terms of Service
– Response to notifications of illegal content or
conduct
– Safe approach to personal information and privacy
– Assessment of means for reviewing illegal or
prohibited content/conduct
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The EU Safer Internet program “soft” measures
Action areas
• Ensuring public awareness of
online risks and precautions
• Education
• Industry self-regulation
• Talk to stakeholders
• Research on trends, risks,
behaviours
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Talk to stakeholders
Pan-European Youth Panel
Safer Internet Forum, Luxembourg Oct. 2010
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Talk to stakeholders
Pan-European Parents’ Panel
Safer Internet Forum, Luxembourg Oct. 2010
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Talk to stakeholders
Safer Internet program and non-EU
countries
4th international conference “Keeping
children safe online”, Warsaw, 2829/9/2010
We invited:
• Armenia: Media Education Centre
• Belarus: INGO Ponimanie
• Moldova: CCF, Moldova – Children
Communities, Families
• Russia: “Stellit”, Friendly Runet Foundation
• Ukraine: La Strada, NGO International
School Equal Opportunities, Donetsk
regional public centre of society and
improvement “Iskra”
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Talk to stakeholders: Exchange
scheme with non-EU countries
Visiting country
Macedonia
Bosnia
&Herzegovina
Host
Safer Internet
Centre
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Scheme launched
in 2010
Croatia
Serbia
Slovenia
Moldova
Romania
Turkey
Cyprus
India
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Ukraine
Poland
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Safer Internet program
How can the EU support you?
• Establish a hotline – support by INHOPE
• Do awareness raising – use material /
campaigns developed in EU
• Integrate Internet Safety into school
curricula – use teaching modules developed
in EU
• Get into contact with EU Safer Internet
Centre(s)
• Use study-visit scheme
• Participate in Safer Internet Days
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Safer Internet program - for more
information:
http://ec.europa.eu/saferinternet
[email protected]
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