Online Child Abuse: New Laws Considered by the European Union
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A lawmaker from the European Union (EU) plans to enact new legislation in the next few months. If this happens, the top technology companies will be forced to increase their efforts to stop online child abuse.
In a recent interview with a local German newspaper, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Elva Johansen said that by 2020, social media had reported 22 million complaints of child abuse. The number of such complaints in the previous year was 1 crore 70 lakh.
However, Johansen noted that the number of allegations was only a fraction of the actual facts.
"In the next few months, I will propose a new law that would force organisations to identify child abuse, make complaints and remove the content of the abuse," he said in an interview.
"Voluntary reporting will no longer be enough for organisations," Johansen said.
The current EU policy does not oblige social media, email services and messenger service-based technology companies to take further action on child abuse content, according to Reuters. If there is an allegation of child abuse, companies like Facebook and Google can take the next step at their own discretion.
Johansen said the fight against child abuse needed to be better coordinated and that a specialized European system was needed to improve the law enforcement agencies and victims to provide the necessary assistance to prevent such crimes.
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