PROJECT BEACON CAMPAIGN FOR PREVENTION OF CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL ABUSE AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
Media dissemination in Bulgaria – News from ECPAT Bulgaria
On 23 November one of the three most popular Bulgarian TV channels NovaNews broadcast in its programme Social Network a 30-minute interview with Lydia Zagorova, ECPAT Bulgaria, where she spoke in detail about the campaign and Project Beacon – Protect children from sexual abuse and sexual exploitation online. She spoke about the dangers from posting CSAM online and the need of wide prevention among children and adults. Also about the possibility and the practice of the technology companies to use automatics instruments for scanning, identification, reporting and elimination of CSAM online. She put the accent on the public necessity of involving the European Parliament and the Members of the European Parliament in creation of new legislation that will make it mandatory for technology companies to turn on automatic tools to scan and detect for images of child sexual abuse and exploitation materials. The survey results from the Project Beacon also were commented as analysis of the public opinion of the European citizens from 8 EU countries about the balance between the privacy and the child protection online.