To mark Safer Internet Day 2018, the European Parents Association suggests that better information for parents is key to child empowerment and more effective than restrictive measures such as the GDPR parental consent requirement.

Read this week’s article from Larry Magid, CBS tech news broadcaster and leading online safety expert who runs Connect Safely (USA).

Insight co-organises the 15th anniversary celebration of Safer Internet Day with teens in Prague on 5-6 February, and announces SID4kids.

Almost 5,000 teens have expressed their views on the impact they fear the GDPR may on their lives when it comes into force just four months from now. Whilst they understand and appreciate the improved protection it will bring, having to ask for parental consent – in some countries until age 16 – is an issue of huge concern. Above all, they fear that this will impact on some fundamental rights