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Published on 2024-11-19
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the General Council of Psychology of Spain (COP) launched on Monday the campaign “There are more risks on the Internet than in real life,” an initiative aimed at encouraging families to reflect on the consequences of giving their children a device with access to all kinds of online services.
According to the AEPD, the campaign is supported by Atresmedia, Mediaset España, and RTVE, which will broadcast it through their respective channels.
“There are more risks on the Internet than in real life” invites families to reflect on the risks involved in giving a smartphone to their children, equating the effects of certain Internet services to the dependency and addiction generated by some substances.
The Spanish Data Protection Agency emphasized that “the early and intensive use of digital media has an impact on health at the physical, psychological, and social levels in the case of children and adolescents, and providing such devices means opening the door to a series of situations that seriously damage both their privacy and, in extreme cases, their mental health.”
After stating that minors are in the midst of developing their personalities, it added that “intensive use” of these devices “could lead to consequences in their neurodevelopment.”
In this regard, it pointed out that normally “families have not received information and are not fully aware of the effects that the improper, problematic, and addictive use of certain Internet services has on children and adolescents, severely affecting their personal development, specifically their health, neurodevelopment, learning, family and social relationships, consumption habits, or the monetization of their data.”
Similarly, it observed that the overexposure of personal information makes them “more prone to risky situations such as cyberbullying, sexting, grooming, with consequences that are difficult to repair in some cases.”
Furthermore, the overexposure of personal information makes them more prone to risky situations such as cyberbullying, sexting, or grooming, with consequences that are difficult to repair in some cases.
For all the above reasons, the alliance between the AEPD and the General Council of Psychology of Spain, demonstrated through this campaign, deepens the former’s strategy regarding minors, digital health, and privacy, which “collects the priority lines of action” of this organization with the objective of “promoting the protection of children and adolescents in their use of the Internet and its services.”
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