13 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2015/2129(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that the fight against the sexual abuse of children needs a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach, mobilising a wide range of civil society actors including families, victim support agencies and churches and giving them access to simplified reporting procedures so that those who are in the closest contact with children can spot the warning signs and, if need be, alert the relevant authorities; insists, for that reason, that measures such as awareness raising, training and education are just as essential in the fight against these crimes as assistance to victims, investigation of crimes and prosecution of offenders;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation and child pornography should be conducted in cooperation with families, whose task it is to protect and educate the children in their care;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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2. Encourages all Member States who still have not fully implemented Article 23 of the Directive to adopt preventive measures concerning the regular training of officials likely to come into contact with children, and to lead prevention awareness-raising campaigns, targeted in particular at families, which have a key role to play;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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3. Underlines that the prevention measures should cover technology related aspects in particular, with a view to ensuring a safer internet and digital literacy among children and those around them, in particular their parents;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that to prevent children from being exposed to pornography, which harms their moral integrity, parents and teachers should be made aware of, and taught how to install, parental control software on electronic devices children have access to;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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4. Recalls that the online sexual exploitation of children is a constantly evolving phenomenon which parallelfollows developments in technology; underlines that peer-to-peer and Darknet networks provide a high degree of anonymity and are therefore also sometimes used for exchanging child sexual abuse material;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
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5. Recommends that blacklists of websites containing child pornography be prepared by national authorities and communicated to Internet service providers; recommends also the sharing of such blacklists of websites among the Member States through enhanced cooperation with Europol and its European Cybercrime Centre, and withcalls, in that connection, for genuine intergovernmental cooperation in this area, using existing information exchange networks or, for example, via Interpol;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
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6. Encourages Member States to exchange information about individual child sex offenders and to set up proper border controls so as to prevent sex offenders from moving unnoticed from one Member State to another for work or for volunteering with children or children’s institutions;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 7
7. UrSuggests theat Member States to make it mandatory for Internet service providers (ISP) to report child sexual abuse material detected in their infrastructure to law enforcement authorities and calls on the ISPs to preserve evidence;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that social networks and discussion forums are used to spread child pornography, and calls on web hosts to do more to alert the appropriate authorities to these practices, on the basis of reports from internet users;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses that only judicial authorities can decide to close web pages featuring child pornography and that the fight against all forms of violence on the internet must be balanced against the need to safeguard digital freedoms and the protection of personal data;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
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8. Urges Member States which have not yet done so to put in place hotlines and a website to which Internet users can report child sexual abuse material they find online and that are capable of assessing this reported content with a view to implementing notice and take-down procedures; takes the view that such hotlines should be allowed to search for child sexual abuse material proactively, as is the case for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in the UKstresses in this regard that these services must always act with the approval of the judicial authorities, in keeping with the rule of law and with respect for digital freedoms;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 11
11. Calls on theEncourages Member States to accelerate, in cooperation with the internet industry, the notice and take-down procedures.