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  • Resource
  • Czech Safer Internet Centre
  • 18 June 2025

20 per cent of teenagers and adolescents spend more than four hours a day on their phones or social media. How much screen time is still “okay,” and when does it become a risk for screen addiction?

  • Resource
  • Latvian Safer Internet Centre
  • 17 June 2025

This informative leaflet provides information to help parents and caregivers understand how the Roblox platform works, what the main risks are, and how to use parental control features. It explains how to create an account, how Roblox adjusts content based on the child’s age, the four levels of content maturity, and how to monitor a child's activity.

  • Rule and guideline
  • policy and regulation, pornography, potentially harmful content

On 21 October 2024, Coimisiún na Meán published and adopted its first Online Safety Code, following extensive public and stakeholder consultation, as well as engagement with its recently established Youth Advisory Committee. The code applies binding obligations to designated video-sharing platform services and gives practical effect to the requirements as set out in Article 28b of Directive 2018/1808/EU (revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive).

  • Ireland

  • Implemented 2024 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Rule and guideline
  • technical settings, Internet usage, practices and engagement

To better protect children on the internet, the law requires manufacturers of connected devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) to install a parental control system and offer its free activation when the device is first put into service. A decree makes the law applicable on September 5, 2022. Another text is still awaited.

  • France

  • Implemented 2022 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Rule and guideline
  • policy and regulation

"The purpose of this law is to ensure the implementation, protection and protection of the child's rights and freedoms, to strengthen the responsibility and opportunities of parents and other representatives of the child in accordance with the law to take care of the child, to ensure the child's interests, to establish the foundations for the organization of assistance to the child and the family or other representatives of the child in accordance with the law, taking into account the Lithuanian The provisions of the Constitution of the Republic, the United Nations Convention on the Rights

  • Lithuania

  • Implemented 1996 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • media literacy education, potentially harmful content, well-being
  • 29 April 2025

Six civil society entities - the European Association for Digital Transition (AETD), Save The Children, ANAR Foundation, iCMedia, Dale Una Vuelta and Unicef ​​- with the institutional support of the Spanish Data Protection Agency and the Attorney General's Office, have joined forces to agree on a proposal for a State Pact to address an increasingly pressing problem: the negative impact that, in certain circumstances, the use of the Internet and social networks can have on minors.

  • Spain

  • policy and decision makers
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • 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.

  • Resource
  • CNCS - Centro Nacional de Cibersegurança, Portuguese Safer Internet Centre
  • 31 January 2025

The awareness-raising resource "Mãe, posso usar o teu telemóvel?" (Mom, can I use your phone?) aims at helping parents and educators of children between the ages of 3 and 6 deal with the challenges of the digital world. This book offers clear guidelines for the healthy management of screen exposure, suggesting creative alternatives to promote children's balanced development.

  • Learning corner
  • BIK Team
  • 01 October 2024

Digital technologies offer a world of opportunities and benefits for children and young people. However, as a parent or carer, you also need to understand the risks associated with it, and how to protect your family. Learn how to use parental controls on browsers and search engines to maximise online safety for your children.
  • Learning corner
  • BIK Team
  • 16 September 2024

Digital technologies offer a world of opportunities and benefits for children and young people. However, as a parent or carer, you also need to understand the risks associated with it, and how to protect your family. Learn how to use parental controls on social media to maximise online safety for your children.
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