Children under 16 will be able to access online platforms only with parents' consent. “It's about the child who alone in the room opens an application and arrives, without knowing, in a dangerous place.”
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The group of PNL senators will submit the “Digital Major Law on Tuesday, which stipulates that minors under 16 will be able to access online platforms and create accounts only with parents' consent, writes Agerpres. According to the initiators, the law not only concerns the big platforms, but all the online service providers, from small social networks, to game applications, fun or video content.
“It is a thought law not to scare, not to prohibit, but to offer a framework in which the parent can be a parent, the child can be a child, and the technology is an ally, not a danger. This law establishes something essential – the age of majority, digital maturity, at 16 years. Nicoleta Pauliuc, the chairman of the Senatorial Commission for Defense, Public Order and National Safety at the debate with the theme “We protect the children in the online environment”.
In the opposite these, the draft normative act concerns the tens of thousands of children entering the online environment, but are not safe. The senator offered examples of minors who are victims of online abuse.
“Today it is about a child, about the child who alone in his room opens an application and arrives, without knowing, in a dangerous place. Today is about the girl who cries in silence because she was attacked online. About the boy who is humiliated on a platform, but does not have the courage to tell anyone, about the hundreds, but there are no children.
The European Union launches an app for checking age in July
She says that parents will have the right and legal tools to suspend accounts and impose restrictions for the first time.
Nicoleta Pauliuc recalled that the EU is about to launch in July an application for checking those who enter online.
“The European Union will launch in July a revolutionary age verification application, which does not expose personal data. The theme of digital maturity is on the European agenda. Romania can and must be an active part in defining a European Digital Protection From small social networks, to games of games, fun or video content.
The chairman of the commission added that there is a need for balance between rights and freedoms. According to her, every day of delay of this law “costs lives”.
