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French youth at significantly increased risk of online harassment during pandemic

Ivan Fischer by Ivan Fischer
10 February 2021
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French youth at significantly increased risk of online harassment during pandemic
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Brussels (Brussels Morning) A French child protection group reveals that online harassment of young people has increased as much as 57% since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, primarily because of the extended amount of time being spent online as a result of lockdown restrictions, RFI  reported on Tuesday.

To mark yesterday’s “safer internet day”, the e-Enfance child protection group released figures showing that it registered more than 12,000 calls on its Net Ecoute helpline during 2020, with as many as 10,000 estimated to have been triggered by the first coronavirus lockdown.

Significant increase

“We had 30% more calls than usual, and a lot from adolescents,” the group’s head Justine Atlan said, commenting on the first French lockdown in spring 2020. “Usually it’s both adolescents and parents who call, but in this case it was primarily adolescents targeted by online harassment.”

A worrying trend that stood out was a 57% spike in calls from teenagers who became targets of sexual extortion. As part of the trend, girls aged between 16 and 17 increasingly became targets of revenge porn, while boys aged 14 and up were targeted for webcam blackmail.

Revenge porn

According to e-Enfance, the group received 4,315 alerts concerning webcam blackmail and revenge porn in 2020, compared to only 2,747 in 2019.. A separate poll commissioned by the group indicates their figures could be under-representing the actual situation significantly, since  one in ten teenagers anonymously claimed to have been a target for some form of harassment.

Atlan noted that one benefit of the lockdown had been that many parents grew closer to their children when it came to digital technology. “Parents sometimes played video games with their children and better understood why their children enjoyed them,” Atlan said. “Parents also discovered social networks… and became perhaps less judgemental and less likely to see their children as being addicted to technology.”

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