Three organisations working to protect children and young people online have today called on Oireachtas members to retain
the Digital Age of Consent at 13 to avoid significant risks to child safety.
The Irish Government's Cabinet has agreed that
the digital age of consent for access to services without parental approval should be set at 13.
Not exact matches
The debate over the
age of consent for access to
digital services distracts from the fact that we all need a balanced education on technology, argues John Kennedy.
How to seek
consent from Canadian users to collect, use and disclose their personal information in the
digital age is the subject
of ongoing debate.
In recent weeks, the director
of the Cyberpsychology Research Network, Dr Mary Aiken, warned that the
age of 13 for
digital consent selected by the Irish Government is too low and leaves youngsters open to malicious and manipulative psychological targeting.
Kogan's application, called This Is Your
Digital Life, collected Facebook data, including locations, genders,
ages and «likes»
of those who signed up to use the service, as well as their list
of friends, who did not
consent to have their data used.
Statement
of Family Online Safety Institute in Response to Proposed Increase in
Age of Digital Consent
Emma Morris, FOSI's International Policy Manager, discusses the potential implications
of a major shift in European policy to change the
age of digital consent for young Internet users.
In response to the imminent resolution
of the discussions around raising the
age of digital consent to 16 in Europe, we would like to put forth the main reasons that we oppose the change.