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Quiz: How much do you know about safe internet use? (for high school students)
This interactive quiz is designed to assess and reinforce students’ knowledge about safe and responsible internet use. It serves as both a formative assessment tool and a conversation starter on topics related to digital citizenship.Through multiple-choice and scenario-based questions, it covers essential topics such as password security, social media safety, cyberbullying, and digital footprints.
Online Safety Code
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).
A prevention plan targeted at children and young people - Tobacco, nicotine and alcohol
The preventive plan aims to advance requirements for children to access restricted content and goods, including through online access. It also addresses electronic age verification in physical stores and in the digital environment through the use of Denmark's digital identity system, MitID.
(Source: Prevention Plan)
Entities responsible for implementation: Danish Government.
Law No. 2024-449 of May 21, 2024 aimed at securing and regulating the digital space
"The so-called SREN law to better regulate the digital space and protect Internet users, particularly the youngest, as well as businesses. The law is inspired in particular by the recommendations of three parliamentary reports on the pornography industry and on digital sovereignty . It also results from the European regulations on digital services (DSA) and on digital markets (DMA).
Decalogue of principles: Age verification and protection of minors from inappropriate content
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos – AEPD) introduced an age verification system in December 2023 to ensure that any person accessing adult content is authorised to do so. This is in line with the General Law on Audiovisual Communication (Spanish Law 13/2022), which obliges video-sharing platforms to set up age verification systems for content that could be harmful to minors.
Public consultation on appropriate age verification systems
In 2024, the Spanish National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) opened a public consultation inviting public opinion on whether the age verification systems used by video platforms in Spain effectively prevent minors under the age of 18 from accessing harmful content such as pornography and gratuitous violence. The public consultation aims to gather comments and input from stakeholders on the applicable criteria for ensuring the suitability of these age verification systems.
