Since media, technology, telecom and online companies agreed to make...
Since media, technology, telecom and online companies agreed to make the Internet safer for children, tools to report online abuse or bullying are becoming universal, and parental controls are now available across more products, the European Commission said Monday before…
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Tuesday’s Safer Internet Day observance. Content ratings for apps, online videos and films are now widely used and the industry coalition has defined and shared best practices for age-appropriate privacy settings, it said. Moreover, industry is open about what it does to filter out child sexual abuse material before it’s reported and to take down offensive content, it said. Safer Internet Day 2013 is about online rights and responsibilities, and aims to encourage users to “connect with respect,” it said. This year, the EC plans to advance the coalition’s work by: (1) Setting up a corporate responsibility platform to monitor coalition results and merge it with other self-regulatory streams. (2) Supporting the development of browser buttons for reports and links to help lines. (3) Backing industry research and innovation on interoperability of content classification systems. (4) Promoting development of age recognition services. (5) Investing in research into tools and technologies to detect child abuse content. Coalition members include Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.