France, Estonia and New Zealand, as well as powerful online platforms such as Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and even Tik Tok, have signed a charter validating the creation of a online child protection lab. Objective: better fight against situations of cyber harassment. “While the digital space offers new opportunities, especially in education, these also come with new threats for children”explains the Elysée this Thursday evening.
Three lines of work
This laboratory will be responsible for “developing technical solutions” and “several lines of work have already been identified. During the first year, his mission will be to work on identification of the age of Internet users “via a ‘trusted third party’ system”. The Élysée also says it wants “use artificial intelligence to detect conversations involving adults posing as minors” and “create a database with unauthorized image references”. France will provide the secretariat for the “scientific committeeof this laboratory. This committee will be responsible for publishing a public report on the work carried out.
More than one in two young adults has been cyberbulliedwhich led half of these victims to think about suicide, according to a poll published on Tuesday by the e-Enfance association
who responds to 3018, the national number for victims of digital violence.
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