Flash Eurobarometer 532 (Protection of Children against Online Sexual Abuse)

Protection of children against online sexual abuse.<br>Topics: estimated extent of online child sexual abuse in the own country; importance of the ability to detect child abuse vs the right to online privacy: ability to detect is more important, both are equally important, right to online privacy is more important; attitude towards the following statements with regard to children and internet use: children can safely use the internet without being exposed to harmful content, children can safely use the internet without being approached by adults seeking to harm them, children are increasingly at risk online, parents know what their children are doing online, parents are under increasing pressure to make sure that their children stay safe online, tools like parental controls are not sufficient to keep children safe online, online service providers can play an important role in the fight against online child sexual abuse; attitude towards selected statements on the exchange of child sexual abuse material: should be left undetected, online service providers should have the freedom to decide whether to tackle this problem and how to do so, should be detected and investigated with the aim of rescuing victims and to bring perpetrators to justice while taking the material down to prevent the re-traumatisation of victims, detection should be imposed only when the number of exchanges on a specific platform or service by perpetrators is significant; preferred way of acting of online service providers to detect, remove and report online child sexual abuse: should be able to take voluntary actions, should be obliged by law under certain circumstances, should not take action; attitude towards the proposed law on the prevention of online child sexual abuse; attitude towards the use of selected tools to detect online child sexual abuse: tools that automatically detect images and videos of child sexual abuse material already known to the police to identify where these images and videos are shared online again, tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) detecting new sexual abuse material images and videos shared online, tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) detecting grooming and / or imminent abuse; attitude towards selected measures: service providers detecting child sexual abuse material and grooming conversations shared publicly, service providers detecting child sexual abuse material and grooming conversations in messages in case of a significant risk of child sexual abuse on a specific platform, service providers detecting child sexual abuse material and grooming in messages using end-to-end encryption in case of a significant risk of child sexual abuse on a specific platform; awareness of a child who has been a victim of online child sexual abuse; personal awareness of child sexual abuse material online; frequency of the follwing online activities: browse websites, look at content on social media network websites and apps, play games online.

Demography: age; sex; nationality; children under the age of 18; child uses internet-connected devices; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community; household composition and household size; region.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; device used for interview; nation group; weighting factor.