Facebook with parental authority: that idea is? – Webnews

Raise the minimum age to use social from 13 to 16 years. A threshold which although not compulsory in the new text in the coming weeks could become a European law and leave to individual states to decide whether to stay with American standards, or adopt more restrictive. Good thinking, for a continent lacking 700,000 job positions in ICT, to worry about the minimum age to use a social network, moving far beyond that of the natural disposition of the new generations.

The proposal a compromise of the governments of the European Council with the Commission during the debate sull’EUDataProtection. The text sets out to bring 13 to 16 years, the individual consent to the processing of personal data, thereby causing an instant expansion of parental authority to use Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, Twitter, even Gmail age that so far they had certainly needed mom and dad. Until now it was worth the American standard, which establishes the minimum age (13 years) for the use of these sites and then proposes a set of parental controls.

With the European proposal, promoted by German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht , you are creating a situation in which, theoretically forever and that between now and 2018 to stay the same, in the age between 13 and 16 years will be needed instead of consensus informed of the person exercising parental of the child. All too obvious motivation that supports this concept: control, anxiety about the so-called (and overrated) cyberbullying . Nothing to wonder at a time when the public applauds projects surveillance and espionage of state in the name of security. Behind this proposal, however, he feels a more underground current of thought that periodically emerges as a karst phenomenon.

The survey of the “Print” on the rule (optional) European. As expected, in the absence of an adequate reflection public adult it tends to applaud these ideas, although then in practice often shows that they have no attention to their privacy or that of their children.

The Grey Zone

Some commentators believe that there is nothing alarming because the explicit consent of the parents of those under 16 is only Optional : each state member will have the opportunity to set their own limits between 13 and 16 years, also keeping the current one. But this does not mean that governments will leave the lower limit. The non-decision pilastesca Commission supports a certain school of thought of the culprits and web removes responsibility from all : The EU says that each state has the freedom of choice, the states say it is a European indication. And in this gray area move more willingly surface currents of thought , those who accuse the company and point the finger at the young, hygiene of the world that have the old and those who think so antiquated. That is the downside of European policy.

In Italy they say worse

Net of complications for businesses and consumers resulting from an increase in so sensitive of age to open an account, that would produce a large amount of information and new tools to be able to answer for it, just listen to the hearing on Privacy and cyberbullying which took place two days ago in the House Judiciary Committee and the Social Affairs to understand how this faculty It is part of national contexts – such as Italian – where you can conceive even worse in terms of control, indifference to freedom of expression in the name of the contrast all’hate speech or other phenomena subjectively important. On the other hand we are the country of the glossary of deviance on the web.

Citizens ignorant or aware?

The refuge rejection of this standard on the under-16 is an obstacle to European economic development , should be put in a museum of horror anti-web of this era confused, frightened. Another voice of the noise of the enemy. Even the statistics known to all, they say that two out of three are already thirteen members to social networks, stop those who still think this is dangerous territory instead of the immaterial dimension of an existence that will write their own rules.

It is the usual competition between those who think that the social order is established by some citizens ‘ignorant and educated a bit’ at a time, and those who believe that instead only the awareness port to make better use of the instruments that history and also the chance put us in his hands.
It would have been nice to see the European Commission on the right.