Commissioner Kroes calls for a virtual panic button that children and young people with a click passing that they are being cyberbullied, be approached by pedo’s or with malicious content in contact be brought.
Details about how the system should look like gave Kroes not, but it would be a simple and universal waarschuwingsmogelijkheid have to go, that existing systems will be built. The emergency button would be webmasters, and according to Kroes, in extreme cases, special public services, to quickly alert need to make for children harmful activities.
Kroes calls to the ceos of all parties that may play a role at the end of October, with proposals on how the emergency button wide can be entered. According to the commissioner, the children getting younger online and they ignore leeftijdschecks of, for example, social-networking sites.
One in four children between 9 and 12 would be active on social-networking sites for a minimum age of 13. “In a country where I think I know well, it is even 75 percent that the age limit to ignore,” said Kroes, possibly referring to the Netherlands.
Kroes calls on social networks to accounts of children therefore, by default, on the right privacy settings. Kroes will be available later this year with a broad plan, with proposals to children online to protect them weerwaarder on the internet.