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Helpline trends Q2, 2025
  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 25 September 2025

The Insafe network of helplines collects data about the calls received, and this is analysed every three months in order to look at possible trends and emerging issues.
Child Sexual Abuse Material – Practical Guide, Point de Contact
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 30 July 2025

Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) provides the public with this practical guide on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) (in French: "Les contenus d’exploitation sexuelle de mineurs").

Practical guide on grooming by Point de Contact
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 30 July 2025

Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) provides the public with the practical guide "Grooming".

This resource provides a legal definition of grooming, based on three specific articles of the French Criminal Code that prohibit this practice, the sexual solicitation of a child by an adult. It also informs readers about the various situations that fall under this form of cyberviolence, as well as the methods commonly used by predators.

Practical guide on sextortion by Point de Contact
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 29 July 2025

Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) provides this practical guide on sextortion ("La sextorsion" in French).

This resource defines sextortion - a form of sexual blackmail often carried out using intimate or sexual images of the victim - based on the various articles of the French Penal Code prohibiting and punishing this type of practice.

Practical guide: incitement to and advocacy of terrorism
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 28 July 2025

Point de Contact (part of the French SIC) provides the public with the practical guide "Incitement to and advocacy of terrorism" (in French: Provocation et apologie du terrorisme)

This resource provides the legal definition of content that advocates for terrorism online or incites to commit terrorist acts, based on the article of the French Penal Code that punishes these practices.

Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • policy and regulation

The purpose of the Media Council for Children and Young People's ethical guidelines is to secure children's rights in the digital environment. The guidelines are about the measures that digital services must take if they want to comply with children's rights. It is based on existing challenges for children's rights on digital media:

  • Denmark

  • Implemented 2021 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • e-crime, NCSII (non-consensual sharing of intimate images), online sexual coercion and extortion of children (OSCEC) (formerly referred to as sextortion), pornography, policy and regulation

Article 176º of the Portuguese Penal Code describes the crime related to pornography of minors, including the grooming of minors, production, distribution, and dissemination of media material, in addition to other actions considered under the law. Article 193° prohibits sharing images or other digital material without consent.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).

Entities responsible for implementation: Council of Ministers / Conselho de Ministros.

  • Portugal

  • Implemented 1995 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
A flyer on 5 basic online safety Tips
  • Resource
  • Dutch Safer Internet Centre
  • 31 January 2025

On this page, you can download a PDF with basic tips in 10 languages: English, French, Arabic, Polish, Ukrainian, Moroccan, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Frisian, created by Veiliginternetten.nl

Five basic tips for your online safety:

  1. Ensure secure passwords for all your devices and accounts.
  2. Always perform software updates on your smart devices immediately.
  3. Use an antivirus scanner.
  4. Regularly make backups.
  5. Check links first, before you click them.
Image says "Sécurisez votre smartphone"
  • Resource
  • Luxembourgish Safer Internet Centre
  • 04 December 2024

This flyers offers smartphone security tips, covering initial setup, data protection, and actions to take if the phone is lost or stolen. It’s available in French and German, both digitally and in print across Luxembourg.

The flyer was released in the frame of the awareness raising campaign Keep your space safe (www.bee-secure.lu/kyss)

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