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:

These things would certainly be helpful and there are lots of technical solutions. There are products one could buy that could be plugged into the Wi-Fi system at home. There is also a little phone app available. A parent could say, for example, "Tom's device is that phone and Anne's device is that computer" and he or she could decide what the child could and could not access. There are lots of such tools for parents.