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This WeProtect Global Alliance study, conducted by Economist Impact (EI), explores the experiences of more than 5,000 18 to 20 year olds who had regular access to the internetas children to understand their experiences of and exposure to online sexual harms during childhood.

In the current discussion on the EU Commission's Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) regulation, the German government's Independent Commissioner for Child Sexual Abuse Issues, Kerstin Claus, has made clear she believes two sets of legal interests - child protection and data protection - are taken equally seriously and not played off against each other. Keeping children and young people safe online is a duty of Internet service providers, she says.

UNICEF published an annual report documenting their work and their achievements in 2022.

The Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Map was created to compare and exchange knowledge on policy making and implementation in EU Member States on the themes and recommendations of the European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children. The fourth report of the series was released in May 2023.

ECPAT Germany, Innocence in Danger, the German Children's Fund and the Digital Opportunities Foundation outlined their position on the EU regulation in a digital press conference on April 4. In their joint statement, which is based on the questionnaire of the Digital Committee of the German Bundestag, the organizations explain in detail that and how the protection of children from sexualized violence online and the right to privacy of all users can be realized in the digital environment.