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:

It was a recommendation of the report that came out last year. The UK is getting very active and it has proposed an amendment to its legislation which set the digital age of consent at 13. The amendment covers a raft of measures that are very child protective not only on how to protect the child from a cybersecurity point of view, but also protecting the mental health of the child. I have heard discussions on this. The UK is taking it very seriously.