Volume of privacy complaints filed by minors remains low
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not yet working optimally when it comes to protecting the privacy of children. Of the 28,000 complaints received by the Dutch Data Protection Authority, only 1 per cent concerned the violation of the privacy of a minor user. This while children represent a third of the online user group. The Dutch Safer Internet Centre and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) cooperated on a podcast on this theme.
The Better Internet for Kids annual report 2020 is out
The Better Internet for Kids (BIK) review of the year 2020 is released on the occasion of Safer Internet Day (SID) 2021, Tuesday, 9 February. It provides a summary of a multitude of stakeholder efforts to protect children and young people online over the past year.
Child Focus launches prevention programme: “Every child of 12 should have a Max”
"Malika (the name is an alias) is 12 years old. After arguing with her family, she left home without her ID or smartphone. Malika’s mother is expecting her to come back later that night. She does not. Hours go by. Without any news, Child Focus opens a case and starts the research with the police. Everything is set up to find Malika in good health: call to witnesses, posters… But there are no solid leads. After three weeks of intense research, the young girl is finally found,” says Miguel Torres Garcia, Deputy Chief Operation Officer at Child Focus. “Each year, we open about 700 cases like Malika’s”. What if Malika had a person she trusts to talk to? Someone who is available to listen to her? Do you think she would have chosen to run away from her problems?
KüberPuuring – A cybersecurity competition for Estonian students
In the summer 2020, Tallinn University of Technology organised a cybersecurity competition called KüberPuuring, for students from the seventh to twelfth grades, as well as for vocational students.
Save the Children Romania launches first self-paced online course on online safety for children
The Romanian Safer Internet Centre recently launched the country’s first online course on online safety for teachers and other professionals working with children. In the present article, they reflect on the reasons why they developed it in the first place, and what it consists of.
Understanding the information factory with InfoHunter
More than 4 billion pieces of shared content circulate on social networks every day, indiscriminately mixing infor, intox, and fake news. In French, this information overload has a name: “infobésité”.
Raising awareness of disinformation through creativity and solidarity in Romania
Romanian children’s news consumption mostly revolves around the internet – 49 per cent of them say they use websites, while 26 per cent use social media to read the news – followed by conversations with their parents (39 per cent) and watching television (28 per cent).
My child has created a social media account without me knowing, what can I do?
When children are taking the step of creating an account on social media without you knowing, the best piece of advice for you is to get curious, not furious. Use this as an opportunity to ask some key questions about the particular social media platform they are on and what they have been doing on it.
Empathic – A programme to address empathy in the classroom
The French Safer Internet Centre (SIC) recently unveiled an empathy awareness programme for elementary and middle school students. In this article, they explain why and how they produced such a resource.
How can parents teach their children how to handle disinformation?
Parents play an important role in teaching their kids how to evaluate the news critically. These media literacy skills are vital for kids growing up in the digital age.
