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  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 29 August 2025

In 2024, regulators and online service providers fully aligned around the Digital Services Act (DSA), a groundbreaking piece of legislation that regulates the provision of online services within the EU, regardless of whether the provider is based in Europe or not. This year, the focus has shifted to implementing these legislative principles in practice. In particular, measures aimed at safeguarding minors have gained significant momentum, with age verification being a key example.
Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • data privacy, technical settings

Commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, together with Waag technology & society, the Centre for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) of Leiden University has produced the code after consulting with children, designers, tech developers and other experts.  The Code for Children's Rights enshrines ten principles to guide developers and designers when developing digital services for children. The code builds on laws and regulations to ensure that the design process prioritises the best interests of the child, transparency and privacy.

  • Netherlands

  • Implemented 2021 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Cover of the broshure "Technical Child Protection on the Internet". In comic-style: A smartphone screen. Three children are sitting and standing beside or on the screen.
  • Resource
  • Austrian Safer Internet Centre
  • 18 March 2025

Although promoting media literacy among young users is the top priority, the use of technical measures on the digital devices of younger children can be helpful. The range of technical child protection measures is vast, and they typically combine various functions to keep inappropriate content away from minors. This usually involves setting usage times, filtering content, and blocking certain applications.

The SMART Video series
  • Resource
  • Service National de la Jeunesse (SNJ)
  • 14 August 2024

This series of 6 interactive videos lessons is aimed at families, teachers and educators who look after children aged 6 to 9. The video series teaches children 6 key messages about internet safety in a fun way. Given the format of this resource and to encourage constructive discussion, we recommend that children work through the videos accompanied by an adult.
(Adapted from "Smart video lessons" by Childnet)

Küberpõgenemistuba metoodika ja sisu (Cyber Escape Room Methodology and Content)
  • Resource
  • Estonian Union for Child Welfare - Lastekaitse Liit
  • 28 May 2024

A cyber escape room is a game that takes place on a computer or the Internet, in which you need to solve various tasks and cases. So you have to escape from the game itself. The material is intended for teachers and students of grades 5-12 for ideas on how to create a cyber security themed escape room. Why not use this solution in basic school creative work or as a practical research topic in high school.

Targalt internetis ABC minu lasteaias (Smartly on the web ABC in my kindergarten)
  • Resource
  • Estonian Union for Child Welfare - Lastekaitse Liit
  • 27 May 2024

The aim of the digital resource is to support the knowledge and skills of educational technologists and internal educators of kindergartens in their organization to teach digital safety issues to the teachers, children, parents and also kindergarten management teams.
Digital resource covers four main topics:
wellbeing and health
safety of digital devices
personal data protection
environment safety
The materials contain 20 different modules, including theory slides, worksheets, methodological instructions for the educator, references to additional reading etc.

"Welcome to Middle School!" awareness leaflet
  • Resource
  • TRALALERE
  • 26 December 2023

This interactive kit enables teachers and educational staff to run 3 easy 1-hour workshops with pupils in Year 6 on the main issues in digital education at the start of secondary school:

Screen time: find the right balance
Manage your digital identity
How to prevent cyberbullying

This kit includes :
- a pedagogical sheet to guide the teacher step by step through the session
- a reference to the school curriculum and national awareness skills
- free tool, ready-to-use teaching resources
- follow-up activities and additional resources

"Welcome to Middle School!" Family Guide
  • Resource
  • TRALALERE
  • 26 December 2023

The Family Kit is a practical, interactive guide for parents to discuss with their kids the key issues of children's digital life. It is designed as a tool to support digital parenting all year round.

The guide is based on parents concerns:
My child wants to go on a social network, what should I do?
My child is stuck on his phone, how can I help?
I'm afraid my child could be cyberbullied. How can I prevent it?
What if my child consults or exchanges intimate content? How can I prevent this?

School levels: Primary School/Middle School

Privacy guideline "Google"
  • Resource
  • Österreichisches Institut für angewandte Telekommunikation (OIAT)
  • 12 October 2023

Apart from the search engine itself, Google includes many other services and platforms such as the video portal YouTube, the navigation service Google Maps, the app store Google Play, the email service Gmail, the browser Chrome, the photo service Picasa, the online data storage service Drive and many more. To make it easier to manage Google services, there is a central platform, namely the Google Account. Users can make cross-platform privacy and security settings in the Google Account.

Privacy guideline "YouTube"
  • Resource
  • Österreichisches Institut für angewandte Telekommunikation (OIAT)
  • 11 October 2023

YouTube is a free video portal for watching, sharing and uploading videos. In this practical step-by-step privacy guideline we show you the most important settings for safe use.

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