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  • Resource
  • UK Safer Internet Centre
  • 12 May 2026

This resource is a sequence of three lesson plans for use with learners aged 13-17.

This resource explores generative AI and how it can be misused, with a specific focus on using generative AI to edit a photo of somebody to make them appear nude or naked, which is sometimes called "nudification".

The resource includes three lesson plans, which cover:

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  • Article
  • INHOPE
  • 26 March 2026

In 2025, EU co funded hotlines received over 4.5 million reports of potentially illegal online content, highlighting both the scale of online harms reported by the public and the essential role hotlines play in identifying and addressing them.
Safer Internet Day celebrations in the Czech Republic
  • Article
  • Czech Safer Internet Centre
  • 17 March 2026

One in five children has, at some point in their life, sent someone a partially nude or nude photo of themselves. Nearly half of children say they have received such an image from someone else. The amount of intimate material involving minors circulating online is on the rise. The Czech Safer Internet Centre focused on this and related topics for Safer Internet Day 2026.
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  • Resource
  • Swedish Safer Internet Centre, ECPAT Sweden the Swedish hotline
  • 17 December 2025

This study examines children who commit sexual abuse against other children, drawing on insights from experts, practitioners, and ECPAT Sweden’s support services. The report highlights that 30–50 per cent of sexual offences against children are committed by another minor, yet the group is highly heterogeneous. Children who harm others may have diverse backgrounds, including experiences of trauma, social difficulties, unmet emotional needs, or challenges with impulse control.

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  • Resource
  • Greek Safer Internet Centre
  • 16 October 2025

The Greek Safer Internet Centre has launched "Your Safe Place", an innovative online platform designed especially for children and teenagers. Its mission is to strengthen safety, confidence, and responsible internet use by offering a friendly space where young people can find support, guidance, and a voice.

The platform stands out thanks to its simple design, easy-to-understand language, interactive tools, and visual content. It helps children and teenagers to:

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  • Rule and guideline
  • online sexual coercion and extortion of children (OSCEC) (formerly referred to as sextortion), policy and regulation

This national strategy covers the period 2021–2025 and outlines 30 specific measures to prevent, detect, investigate, and support victims of online sexual abuse involving children, promoting cross-sector collaboration between governmental bodies, internet service providers, schools, parents, and NGOs. Issued by the Norwegian government, it aims to strengthen and coordinate efforts across various sectors and actors to tackle a dramatic increase in online child abuse cases.

  • Norway

  • Implemented 2021 - 2025
  • 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
  • online sexual coercion and extortion of children, cybersecurity

The Straffeloven is Norway's comprehensive national criminal law framework, outlining definitions of criminal offenses and stipulating corresponding penalties.
Enacted in 2005, it replaced the previous 1902 code and includes both general provisions on criminal responsibility and substantive rules covering corporate liability through to severe crimes like genocide and terrorism.

Entities responsible for implementation: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
 

  • Norway

  • Implemented 2005 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
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  • Article
  • INHOPE
  • 25 September 2025

Across the first two quarters of 2025, European Commission co-funded hotlines submitted data to the Insafe INHOPE Assessment Platform. Hotlines received a combined total of more than 3.6 million reports in this six-month period. This represents a sustained upward trend from the start of the year, reflecting both the growing visibility of reporting mechanisms and the expanding reach of hotlines across Europe.
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