The 12-year-old girl, living in Vincennes with her family, has managed to bypass parental controls on her smartphone.
In Vincennes, in the Paris suburbs, a mother was in shock when she discovered that her 12-year-old daughter regularly consulted violent porn sites on her smartphone. Sabrina confided in RMC : “At one point my kid found herself talking to people. She didn’t know if they were adults or children.” She thought she was fine with having parental controls in place, but the young teenager seems to have found a subterfuge to override it.
Parental control, which a bill could soon make automatic on smartphones and tablets, helps but does not do everything. According to experts, we must also be vigilant when children and adolescents are in front of the screens, and not just vis-à-vis the time they spend there. It is necessary monitor content, then above all do not hesitate beforehand to doing some prevention and make them aware of the violent content that can be found on the Internet.
Parliament will consider the subject in early 2022
“Parents must be aware that these tools are a precious help, especially when children are small, until they start college. But in no case are these tools cannot replace their vigilance“, said Thomas Rohmer, President and Founder of the Observatory for Parenthood and Digital Education.
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The bill on parental control, which aims to encourage manufacturers to automatically install it on their devices, will be debated in Parliament in early 2022. The text is recorded by Christophe Castaner, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Céline Calvez and Béatrice Piron. They sought to find solutions, new tools, to help parents in the education of their children, especially given the number of young people under 12 who already own a smartphone (two-thirds).
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