Speeches

Mr President, Commissioner, it has not been easy to get here: many hours of work, an extremely complex legal and technical debate and a great deal of pressure on the rapporteurs. But this report shows that Parliament has lived up to what was required. The figures for child sexual abuse are appalling. Massive internet consumption during confinement has exposed children's vulnerabilities to predators and sex traffickers. Therefore, my group insisted on expanding the technologies to those that can detect not only the sexual abuse material already known, but also that of new production and the grooming. We are aware that legislation of this nature needs additional safeguards and safeguards and we have introduced them in the new regulations to minimise the risks that privacy may run to the processing of this data. From different positions we have reached an agreement which, reiterating the words of the rapporteur, Mrs Sippel, is a possible and necessary agreement. I sincerely believe that this regulation resolves well the need to reconcile the protection of privacy and the protection of minors. Because, if we came to the conclusion that we have to choose between privacy or protection of minors, then we would have a serious problem. We would have a serious problem as legislators, as fathers and mothers, and as responsible citizens.