EU Says Further Online Child Safguards Needed

“Children are going online more, and younger, and are exploring an exciting digital world of opportunity. But we urgently need to step up a gear on what we do, and how we work together to empower and protect children in this ever changing digital world. We need to give parents and teachers the confidence to take on their responsibilities. The strategy I will present later this year will tackle these problems head on”. The report suggests several actions including making hotlines better known and improving the supporting infrastructures to make the removal of illegal content more efficient; improving awareness of the risks and ways to mitigate them; wider use of age-rating systems (like PEGI) for online games; developing codes of codes of conduct and other ways of making retailers more aware of age-ratings, to prevent “under-age” sales of games.xa0 For further information, see the report “Protecting Children in the Digital World”. ]]>