The bill, adopted Tuesday unanimously, wants to force the manufacturers of connected devices to include a free and easy-to-use parental control.
Le Monde with AFP
The National Assembly voted at first reading Tuesday, January 18, in favor of a text facilitating the use of parental control for connected objects.
With the aim of protecting the minors of pornography, cyber-harassment or violence on the Internet, the proposed law presented by the member the Republic in March (LRM) Bruno Studer was adopted at the beginning of the evening by All 82 voters. The text had already received unanimous support during its commission.
The bill, which must now be examined in the Senate, wants to force the manufacturers of devices connected to include a free and easy-to-use parental control, devices still very little known or used. Parents could then choose whether to enable this installed by default, when the unit’s first commissioned.
Computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, connected watches, video game consoles would be concerned, but not the telecom operators or home automation boxes.
“Tools to help parents exercise their responsibilities. “
The “minimum features” and “technical characteristics” of this parental control will be specified by decree. They could evolve according to the technological advances, but should remain simple to manipulate.
“It’s a prevention law, which can not all”, but wants to “bring tools to help parents exercise their responsibilities,” said Mr. Studer. “At 12, nearly one in three children has been exposed to pornography,” said Children’s Secretary of State, Adrien Taquet, to illustrate the risks of the Internet with the youngest. “One child alone in his room with a smartphone can run more dangers than if he walked alone in a park in the evening,” Alexandra Louis (group act, majority) during the debates.
Spring Muriel (LFI) greeted this text, but estimated that one could “go further”, with, for example, an opportunity to “limit publications on social networks”. Virginie Duby-Muller (LR) welcomed the text tackling a “major society topic”.
