Online violence against minors jumped 57% in 2020 (illustration) -
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Last year, the e-Enfance Association recorded a 57% increase in cyberviolence (cyberbullying, revenge porn, insults, etc.) on its Net Ecoute helpline, with a share of 15-17 year olds increasing sharply among victims.
Teens were more exposed to online violence in 2020 because of periods of lockdown due to the health crisis.
“When you are, like us, on the front line, the direct testimonies of victims of cyberviolence make it necessary to react, to inform and to anticipate even more.
Mobilization is urgently needed to strengthen the protection of our children, ”explains Justine Atlan, general manager of the e-Enfance association.
Insulting messages, cyberstalking, "ficha" accounts, revenge porn, posting of embarrassing photos or videos, incitement to suicide, creation of false profiles ... Young people were particularly exposed to online violence in 2020 because of periods of confinement due to the health crisis.
Last year, the e-Enfance Association recorded a 57% increase in cyberviolence on its Net Ecoute helpline (platform for the protection of minors on the Internet and support for digital parenting).
Last year, the number of calls on “Net Ecoute” relating to this violence amounted to 4,315, against 2,747 in 2019. “The figures recorded this year on our platform bear witness to the violence present in the sphere. digital.
Violence exacerbated with the pandemic and the successive confinements which particularly affects young people, ”explains Justine Atlan, general manager of the e-Enfance association.
Cyberbullying has doubled, carried by webcam blackmail and revenge porn
All forms of digital violence are concerned, especially those of a sexual nature.
Cyberstalking almost doubled over the year, driven by the explosion of blackmail on the webcam and by revenge porn.
"This increase in online violence is mainly linked to the explosion of two phenomena of sextortion, threat or dissemination of sexual content without consent and insults, with a share of 15-17 year olds increasing sharply among victims", details the e-Enfance association.
The webcam blackmail mainly concerned young boys aged 14, victims for example of individuals posing as women to trick them and extract money from them by threatening to disclose compromising videos.
As for revenge porn, "it mainly affected high school girls aged 15-16, victims of the dissemination of photos or videos of a sexual nature, wrongly or rightly associated with their names," explains Justine Atlan.
"Mobilization is urgent to strengthen the protection of our children"
The association also identified “a lot of insults online”, alerted in particular by teachers at the end of their virtual classes, where they sometimes observed “intrusions” with offensive messages and “links to pornographic content, without being able to "regulate" them.
"The adolescents, who are quite vulnerable, continued" to live online ", and conversely, it was easier for crooks or stalkers to find victims", explains the association.
“When you are, like us, on the front line, the direct testimonies of victims of cyberviolence make it necessary to react, to inform and to anticipate even more.
Mobilization is urgently needed to strengthen the protection of our children, ”adds Justine Atlan, a few days before SafeR Internet Day, an international day to raise awareness of digital uses for young people, which will take place on Tuesday 9 February.
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