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
Dr. Mary Aiken:
Without naming the specific app, there is one - available to 13 year olds - in which there is a setting for wanting to engage with strangers. That flies in the face of every educational protocol. Can one imagine a product designed to encourage children to set themselves up to engage with strangers?