Protection of Minors from Risks of Criminal Exploitation on the Internet (a Comparative Law Analysis of Foreign and International Experience)

The era of rapid digital transformations contributes to an increase in the scale and methods of exploitation of people. A special category exposed to the greatest risk on the Internet are children, who often become victims of criminal behavior of adults. The article analyzes the legislative trends of various legal systems to ensure the safety of minors from the risks of sexual exploitation using digital technologies. From the standpoint of the comparative legal method, within the framework of the contextual approach and functional analysis, international and foreign regulatory legal acts ensuring the safety of minors in the information and communication space are studied. Special legislation in the digital environment is a relatively recent phenomenon and reflects public demand for the need for state regulation of the area in question in order to protect human rights, especially the rights of the child.