News
News & Insights
Find out about all the great work we are doing, or spend a little longer reading one of our longer read articles on variety of topics.
The Digital Age of Consent: 2 Years Later
THE LONG READ: On the occasion of the second anniversary of the digital age of consent being set in Ireland as 16, professor Brian O’Neill and Cliona Curley, take stock of its impact on children and asks if anything has fundamentally changed since its introduction. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect across Europe two years ago on May 25th, 2018 and brought the issue of children’s personal data to the fore. The GDPR introduced for the first time in the European Union special privacy protections for children. Children were identified in the GDPR as “vulnerable individuals” meriting “special protection”…
First CyberChampion School in Ireland!
St. Finian’s National School, Dillonstown in Co. Louth is the first school in Ireland…
Gambling & Video Games
GAMBLING THROUGH VIDEO GAMES Back in 2019 I highlighted the potential harms children could experience…
Squid Game: Not quite child’s play…
If you have yet to hear about Squid Game, trust us, you are about…
A reflection on Cyber Break 2021
So…how was it for you? As the dust settles on our second successful annual Cyber…
Feeling like your family needs a digital detox? Try CyberBreak!
The world we live in now is hyperconnected by our smart devices – most of…
It’s October and it’s Cyber Security Awareness Month!
Did you know that every year since 2004, the President of the United States of America…