But the digital landscape continues to develop, and it must be our efforts to protect and strengthen young people online, which is why we advertise today’s contribution of 10 million euros.
Study families to reveal opportunities
Supporting parents in making the right choices for their families online is at the heart of the event. A study ordered by Google with 10,000 parents in Europe reveals how common – and important – it’s for parents to have conversations with their children about online security.
Among other findings are the presence of children and teens who use educational content, such as learning a new language on YouTube and gaining access to educational apps to help them with their learning and studies at home. In addition, parents use controls as a family connection to help their child have positive age experiences online.
Additional parental control functions
You don’t have to be a parent to be aware of the debate that plays out about the right role as smartphones in schools, nor to share concerns about barriers to distraction -free learning. (Although many of us are and do.)
So we built school time in Android phones, tablets and watches and roll it out in the spring. We show how this new tool helps parents limit the telephone functionality and limit app access during school hours, while still allowing calls/texts from contacts that parents have approved.
Our latest updates to the family connection make it easier for parents to manage screen time control and privacy and content filtering control in a single place across their child’s Android and Chrome devices. Parents can also add contacts directly to their child’s device and choose to limit phone calls and text calls to only these trusted contacts so that children only interact with people they know.
Works together to provide age insurance
Similarly, we have also worked to contribute effective, secure age insurance solutions – a challenge that platforms, developers, app shops, governments and parents all need to work together to tackle.
Our approach includes the supply of infrastructure that helps connect developers with privacy protection of age signals. E.g. Android’s new identification manager API can help minimize privacy risks related to users identification to access developer content. This API is asking users to explicit permission to share an age signal stored in the user’s digital wallet on device. This may be from a digital government’s ID, but may also include other industrial standard age signals over time. To increase the availability of age signals in digital wallets, we are looking for partners in the region who can issue verifiable age information. Any age insurance solutions should prioritize privacy and give users control over their personal information.
Together, with parents, teachers, children’s well -being organizations and decision makers, we will continue to work together to shape technologies that help protect, respect and strengthen children and teens across all Google’s platforms.