The government is preparing with the telecoms industry and child protection associations a parental control system on smartphones, which will be fixed by decree "within a few weeks or months", the minister's entourage said on Monday. Digital Delegate, Jean-Noël Barrot.
This approach should make it possible to apply the law on parental control voted on the initiative of LREM deputy Bruno Studer and promulgated on March 2.
This text plans to oblige the manufacturers of connected devices (smartphones, tablets, game consoles, etc.) to install a parental control device and to offer its free activation during the first commissioning.
The precise definition of the system was referred to an implementing decree, the preparation of which is entrusted to Jean-Noël Barrot and the Secretary of State in charge of Childhood, Charlotte Caubel.
Limit “time spent in front of the screen” by the child
A first consultation meeting with child protection associations, mobile operators and manufacturers took place in Bercy on Friday.
According to Jean-Noël Barrot, quoted in Le Parisien dated Saturday, the parental control system should make it possible to limit "the time spent in front of the screen" by the child.
It will also allow parents to limit the type of content accessible according to the age of the child, according to the thresholds set by the PEGI video game classification system (3, 7, 12, 16, 18 years old).
Parents will be free to opt out of these features.
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