Creating a safer connected world: Organisations and industry

Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre celebrates tenth anniversary

Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre

Since 2010, BEE SECURE, the Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre, has been promoting a safer, more responsible, and more positive use of digital technology among the general public.

Looking back on the European Commission’s online event for Safer Internet Day 2021

Lili Leißer, BIK Youth Ambassador

Lili Leißer, Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Youth Ambassador and Youth Coordinator at the Austrian Safer Internet Centre, took part in the online event organised by the European Commission on Safer Internet Day, on Tuesday, 9 February 2021. In this article, she reflects on the progress accomplished in the framework of the Youth Pledge.

Volume of privacy complaints filed by minors remains low

Dutch Safer Internet Centre

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not yet working optimally when it comes to protecting the privacy of children. Of the 28,000 complaints received by the Dutch Data Protection Authority, only 1 per cent concerned the violation of the privacy of a minor user. This while children represent a third of the online user group. The Dutch Safer Internet Centre and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) cooperated on a podcast on this theme. 

KiDiCoTi – An exploration into families’ handling of emergency remote learning in the first lockdown

BIK Team

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission recently published new research into families’ digital lives and remote learning activities in 11 European countries during the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. 

Taking stock of the state of online safety ahead of Safer Internet Day 2021

Safer Internet Day Team

On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, we will join “Together for a better internet” to celebrate yet another edition of Safer Internet Day (SID) - though this time in a starkly different digital environment, compared to previous editions. Almost one year after the advent of the COVID-19 crisis and the changes it has brought about in our online habits, we review the new realities with regards to safety and well-being in the online sphere.

Dutch Media Literacy Network publish their report “Ten Years of Media Literacy Research”

Dutch Safer Internet Centre

The report “Ten Years of Media Literacy Research” is a summary of 90 studies that the Scientific Council of the Dutch Media Literacy Network has collected over the past two years. The Council brings together scientific knowledge about media literacy, determines where knowledge gaps lie and indicates what new research is needed.