Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

I wish to make one important point in response to Deputy Sean Sherlock. One of his questions was about the digital age of consent and another was not about the digital age of consent but online safety. Where they meet is in age verification. If we can age verify online, we can, potentially, eliminate the practice of sharing images. The Deputy's two questions are related but really they are separate.