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  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 18 December 2025

Raising the bar for online safety: How the Australian social media delay aims to protect children, and what the world can learn from the Australian online safety framework

At the recent Safer Internet Forum, Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, delivered a keynote titled “Why age matters?”. This article, based on that keynote, provides a comprehensive overview of the Australian online safety framework, including the recently adopted social media delay for children under the age of 16.
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  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 04 December 2025

Safer Internet Forum 2025 is here!

The Safer Internet Forum 2025 sees various online safety stakeholders and young people discuss topics around the theme: "Why age matters: Protecting and empowering youth in the digital age".
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  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 28 November 2025

Growing up in a digital world: How age shapes experiences with digital technology

Understanding why, and more so, how age matters requires solid evidence about how children at different developmental stages experience the online world. However, the current evidence base remains uneven. Even so, some European countries conduct comprehensive national studies that examine distinct age cohorts. Findings indicate that children’s digital experiences—and their needs—shift significantly as they mature, underlining the importance of age-specific approaches.
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  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 31 October 2025

Why age matters: Shaping a better and safer digital world that protects and empowers children

A seven-year-old playing their first online game and a seventeen-year-old campaigning for climate action share the same internet — yet their needs, capacities and vulnerability to risks could not be more different. Still, they are treated the same on many online platforms. The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) is changing that, requiring online platform providers to consider children's protection in the design and governance of their platforms. Understanding why age matters means aligning digital environments with how children grow — cognitively, emotionally, socially, and legally.
Blue cover with the title ‘Survey: Online Habits of Children and Teens’. In the middle, children are lying in a circle, smiling and holding smartphones.
  • Resource
  • Greek Safer Internet Centre
  • 16 October 2025

Online habits of children and adolescents

One year after the Act came into force, a nationwide survey by the Greek Safer Internet Centre reveals that the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) is still falling short when it comes to protecting minors online. The survey, conducted in February 2025, gathered responses from 2,500 students aged 10–18 across Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion, and Larissa.

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  • Rule and guideline
  • policy and regulation, content-related issues, media literacy education

Act No. 264/2022 Coll. on Media Services and on Amendments to Certain Acts

This law establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework for broadcasting, on-demand audiovisual services, retransmission, multiplex providers, video-sharing platforms, and other media service providers in Slovakia. It sets out rules governing content moderation, age verification, and the oversight role of a new independent regulator (the Council for Media Services), strengthening consumer protection and public interest safeguards.

Entities responsible for implementation: Council for Media Services

  • Slovakia

  • Implemented 2022 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
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  • Rule and guideline
  • policy and regulation, media literacy education, digital and socia-cultural environment

Guidelines – Age Classification of Audiovisual Programmes

The "Guidelines – Age Classification of Audiovisual Programmes" by Medietilsynet (Norwegian Media Authority) outline the process for classifying audiovisual programmes to protect minors from harmful content. Mandated by the Audiovisual Programme Act, all programmes made available to the general public, with specific exemptions, require an age limit. The assessment considers a programme's assumed impact on various age groups, evaluating its expression (e.g., mood, characters) and content (e.g., violence, sexuality, difficult themes).

  • Norway

  • Implemented 2023 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Phone screen showing the writing "EU Digital Identity - Age Verification" with two young people using a phone closeby
  • Article
  • European Commission - DG CONNECT
  • 25 September 2025

How the age verification blueprint can help make the internet safer for children

The internet plays a big role in the lives of children, serving as a platform for learning, staying connected with friends and family, and an outlet for play and creativity. But it is also filled with dangers and harmful content. One critical measure to create better and safer online experiences for children and young people is to effectively ensure they can access platforms and content that are appropriate for them, and in turn, are protected from accessing dangerous or harmful content and contact on the internet. This is why the European Commission recently launched its age verification blueprint, based on the European Digital Identity Wallet specifications. Here, we explain how it will work in detail.
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  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 23 September 2025

Youth policy dialogue on cyberbullying with Commissioner Glenn Micallef

On 16 September, Directorate General for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture, and Sport held a youth policy dialogue on cyberbullying to exchange views and hear the perspectives and priorities of young people on how the European Union can develop an action plan against cyberbullying. Participants addressed key issues and provided recommendations to help the European Union tackle cyberbullying.
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