The Council of Ministers approved today the bill to protect minors in the digital field, among the wide … A battery of measures, rises from 14 to 16 minimum in Spain to be able to open an account in a social network or subscribe to any type of platform. Minors can only do this through an explicit permission for those who practice the authority of parents (usually parents) or their legal teachers.
The text, which will now be sent to Congress for its processing and final approval, indicates that the minimum age to give free approval to process personal data by different internet content operators (without which it is impossible to legally registration on one of these platforms) will rise to 16 years. This restriction will not succeed unless the public authorities are able to implement other network companies from the obligations that are characterized by the future base, to have an effective system to verify age to reach, and nothing is similar to the basis of most of them today. If this commitment is not searched, the repair will be a wet sheet.
The project contains a battery of legal measures and changes that seek to end the current arrival of the current minors to the content of adults such as pornography, violence or bets; It implements mechanisms for early detection of damage caused by the problematic use of mobile phones, tablets, or computers; It imposes obligations on manufacturers, suppliers and actions against those who ignore them; It seeks to train the palace until they are vaccinated because children are facing risks; The criminal law and procedural laws are amended to prosecute digital criminals, especially children and shutters.
These are any of the changes and provisions that include the draft law:
It includes the use and enjoyment of the digital environment as the right of all the Spanish palace. “The shortening has the right to be actually protected from the digital content that may harm their development … They have the right to receive adequate and necessary information in the form of an appropriate language and language according to the age of using technologies, as well as their rights and risks related to the digital environment … they are entitled to access to information, to freedom of expression and hear it … it is concluded to access effective conservatives, delivery and delivery for use.
Enter the symbol of the criminal law penalty for digital environments. It is the apparent equivalent of material penalties for prohibiting communication by any means with victims, home, work or place of residence. The punishment, which is not expected in principle as a precautionary measure, consists of prohibiting access or communication through social networks, forums, communication platforms or any other place in the virtual space, when the crime is committed within its bosom. It is applied in a wide range of crimes with digital use, including abuse of family, online domination, gender violence, or sexual assault.
A new crime to punish the prison is created increasingly processing images or third sounds through “Deepfakes”, which was published online without its permission, with sexual or very sad content and causes severe damage. “The prison sentence will be imposed for a period of one to two years on those who, without permission from the affected person and with the intention to undermine their moral safety, spread, show or present their body or voice from the generated sound or modify or re -create primary systems or algorithms or any other technology, it looks real content or sexual content. If the spread is huge, the punishment will be two years.
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Wrong virtual identity exacerbated
The use of fake identities on the Internet, including assigning counterfeit ages or sex, to facilitate crimes will be considered a strict criminal law and will make the corresponding punishment in the upper half of the fork. It was designed above all due to sexual crimes about the palace (harassment, “grooming”, aggression, exhibition, corruption), where children who pretend increasingly demonstrate as children or girls of their age to arrest their victims.
The standard of the current system of legal procedures and rapid procedures for withdrawing the content of the pirate from web pages or any other digital site, or even its closure, which may violate childhood rights. It gives public authorities the same possibilities of work used before violating intellectual property rights to cases in which they must defend the best interests of the minor.
Reform creates one strict to the attractiveness of children
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Monitor the former parents
All mobile phones, tablets, computers, or television devices that are sold in Spain will be obliged to include an effective and free system to control parents so that parents or guardians can take measures to protect minors from the dangers of dealing with these devices, online navigation, chats and social networks. Manufacturers and suppliers will have to stimulate the virtual system in the initial formation process of the device, as is the case with languages and any other advantages of use. In this way, all parents, regardless of their economic means or skills, will decide whether this shield or the limits of using the device and the Internet will be activated on their children. Its composition should be easy to deal with most of them.
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Alerts and verification of age
The draft law states that the parental control apparatus constitutes a preventive triangle through the duty of suppliers to use the age verification system effectively to access the content of adults (pornography, bets or violence, among other things) and also faces its new designation, with clear and simple information, all the content is not appropriate for the palace, as well as a warning of risks for young people of their products and functions. These binding alerts will facilitate veto on websites, applications, forums, networks, or jobs that parents can do with parental control.
Pediatricians will merge questions for early screening of the screens into their routine
The program, which is used by pediatricians and nurses in health centers to prevent and discover diseases, behaviors or habits in childhood and adolescents on their tests that allow you to determine indicators of early problematic use (or even addiction) on Internet screens, to provide specialized assistance. Its implementation and protocol design will be implemented in coordination with autonomy, which are health care providers. Specialized centers have discovered an increase in adolescent addictions, especially among them. These are usually boys video games and their social networks.
The standard requires the implementation of a national digital protection strategy for children, with short, medium and long -term measures, which will often leave the proposal submitted by Group of Experts 50. One of the basic measures will be the digital literacy program, which, in coordination with autonomy, will be taught from primary school to high school, to give protection tools and discover “fake news” less. This will not be a tangible but transverse teachings and will permeate all education, which teachers and consultants must also obtain specific training.
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The obligations of influencers
The “influencers” should notify in an unambiguous and frank way if they will issue harmful content of physical, moral or mental development of minors.
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Block access to the spoils box
The palace will prohibit access to “spoils” for video games. It is a surprise purchase in which the player expects to win the weapon, tool or key to overcoming the challenge. Once he pays it, the box opens and reveals the prize. Most of the time you follow the click, but the game allows you to try another box and new payment. And so until you want or you can.