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The Federal Trade Commission is solely concerned with American rules but some of these rules are relevant for millions of European children using US-based social networking site. This submission has an overall focus on age verification issues.

The eNACSO Agenda for Action includes recommendations to governments, industry and other stakeholders on how to create a safer online environment for children and young people.

eNACSO recommends ways of securing children's rights online, April 2009.

PRESS RELEASE 04.12.08

Online child protection moving up the global agenda - but is it understood? 
Failure to understand the real challenge of protecting children on the internet has reduced the impact of global internet discussions, according to European child rights NGOs.

This paper outlines eNACSO’s position and recommendations on a number of key issues relating to protecting children from internet-based forms of sexual exploitation and abuse. eNACSO’s positions on closely related issues including empowerment of children online are covered in separate papers.

27th April 2009
eNACSO/NSPCC Joint Conference
Protecting children from internet-related sexual abuse

Most child abuse images (‘child pornography’) are a visual record of the sexual abuse of a child, typically either a still photograph or a video. There is also a class of material known as “pseudo child pornography”, illegal in many EU Member States.
Pseudo images will be of photographic or video quality and look realistic, but normally the producer will have taken a picture or video of a real child and edited it in such a way as to create an image of an event that never actually happened.

Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, repealing Framework.
Decision 2004/68/JHA” 25th March 2009

The workshop heard how the use of mobile devices was reaching saturation point in many youth markets around the world, with several countries recording ownership levels significantly in excess of 100%. Many children now use internet-enabled mobile devices, with the level varying across the globe.