EC agrees to children's online safety deal
Posted in: Child protection at 10/02/2009 01:17
The European Commission has brokered a deal with internet companies to help protect children using social networking sites, it announced today.
The agreement - which covers networks including Facebook, MySpace and YouTube - will see a number of safeguards put in place to help young people while they are using the web.
The proposals include systems for dealing with cyberbullying, altering default privacy settings for children and ensuring that users have the ability to report abuse with a single click.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/09/children-online-safety-agreement