Seven proposals to make the web a safer virtual place for minors. It is the package of measures that on February 6th and 7th, on occasion of the Safer Internet Day, an annual event established by the European Commission to promote a conscious use of the network, Telefono Azzurro presented in the hall of the parliamentary groups of the Chamber.
The project, which has identified as a priority the raising of the so-called age of connection from the current fourteen to sixteen years, was born with the aim of protecting the rights of children and adolescents. "They are – explained the president of the non-profit organization Ernesto Caffo – the same guys asking for it”. This is why it is necessary “sensitize - he added - not only public opinion, but also legislators so that they adopt greater measures to protect minors who surf the Internet website and uses and social network".
Telefono Azzurro has proposed to the government to give "invalid" the contracts concluded by minors under sixteen with information society service providers and to oblige the latter to Verify the user's age upon completion of the contract itself. The non-profit organization also invited the executive to limit the possibility of demonstrating consent to the processing of your data only for those over 16 years of age.
In the field of sextorsion, Telefono Azzurro suggests that strengthen the power of the ensures of privacy. This particular form of extortion occurs when the victim is asked for payment of a sum of money sotto at threat of dissemination of real or presumed videos or images that portray her in poses or attitudes sexually explicit.
The other proposals of the non-profit organization concern the Strengthening the 114 service, Childhood emergency, through the forecast of the "Emergency contact in app” and the introduction of thedigital civic education and a new governance of the children's digital agenda.
The government's position
The requests of the association chaired by Caffo have found the government's full support. "La protection of childhood and adolescence in relation to the digital world – he in fact stated during the event Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policies Maria Teresa Bellucci - it is certainly a priority of this executive".
"we find - he added - that there must be responsibility and awareness of responsibility at all levels: at the institutional; at the level of the platforms, which must be increasingly capable of introducing age measurement systems; at the level of school, which must train and educate to ensure that the new generations living in a digital world can see in that world a place of opportunities and not of malaise and deviance".
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Article published on 8 February 2023 - 18:40
