“Caution on the Internet”: new resources to protect 8-10 year olds

Do you know the web environment in which your children evolve on a daily basis? Do they know how to preserve their privacy with the proliferation of screens? It is to take stock of the practice of the youngest on the web that the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL) published at the end of October a whole set of new resources concerning the use of children aged 8 to 10, ie between CE2 and CM2. An age when children are sometimes present on the internet without necessarily knowing the risks and limits.

Videos and quizzes to broach the subject with your children

Entitled “All together, Caution on the Internet”, the initiative of the CNIL, does not fall into prohibition or repressive discourse, but intends to raise awareness among children as well as their parents or their educators and teachers, before entering college. . And to give them the keys to a reasoned digital practice.

The resources offered, free of charge, make it possible in particular to open a dialogue with your child thanks to:

• Videos that come back to important concepts (online identity, cyberbullying, cookies, etc.) around real scenarios;
• A card game to play around privacy on the internet;
• A quiz to do with your child to find out whether or not he has the right online reflexes;
• Booklets for adults to best support children in this reflection.

A young audience increasingly present on the web

This provision of new tools comes after a public consultation organized by the CNIL in 2020 on the rights of minors. She had been able to observe an increasingly early use of online services: opening an account on social networks, on online video platforms, registration on network gaming sites, etc.

Supervision now seems essential: according to a survey by the IPSOS institute and the United for Families (UNAF) association published in February 2022, 85% of children between the ages of 7 and 10 regularly use the Internet.