Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Ms Rachel Madden:

I will address three matters, the first of which is parental consent. As Mr. Meade mentioned, last year we launched Family Link whereby a parent can stay in the loop while his or her child uses his or her device or accesses his or her Google account. The parent can set digital ground rules and screen-time rules, such as a bedtime rule or daily device limits, and a parent can manage the apps their children can download, as well as restrict websites and so on. We prohibit personalised advertisements for users who have accounts managed with Family Link and the same is true in the case of YouTube Kids, our product for young people who want to use YouTube. We have other restricting policies in which there are no advertisements for food and beverages or for health and beauty products. Any advertisers using Google services cannot specifically target anyone under the age of 18.

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