The European Commission has drawn up plans to give children online to ensure greater security while also improving the quality of content available for young people. The EU wants internet companies and telco’s more involved.
One of the objectives that the EU refers to the creative and educational sectors to encourage high-quality content for children and young people online. Another priority is to children and young people to learn more about how they can move safely on the internet, while there is also a more accessible hotlines should be set for this target group if they encounter problems.
To ensure the safety of the youth online to increase, the EU seeks the help of the business community, for example by setting self-regulation. It mentions the European Commission, in particular for mobile providers, manufacturers of mobile phones and social-networking sites. Thus, they would better take into account the privacy of children, and there would be new mechanisms should be developed for parental supervision. Further, there would be more use should be made of leeftijdskeuringen and the advertising world would be better in the holes can be held.
As a last priority refers to the European Commission in the fight against child abuse and child pornography. The EU argues that content faster and on a larger scale and screened on the presence of child pornography. Should such material be found, then it should be easier to remove it.
To the mentioned goals, which were based on already deployed European policy, the European Commission’s cooperation with companies and authorities in various organizations. This can be a few years pulled out.