(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 26 - Almost two out of three young people signed up to a social network before the age allowed by the platform, even knowing that they could not.
And always two out of three when they sign up for a new online service or access a new app they accept the terms of use without ever reading the privacy policy.
Awareness among adults is higher, in fact, those who systematically ignore the privacy policy drop to 50%.
43% of minors are unaware of the rights that the law recognizes to defend themselves from cyberbullying, while 64% of over 18s seem more prepared.
Yet young people are interested in the defense of privacy, especially online.
9 out of 10 students consider favorably the possible organization of meetings on these topics from school age, perhaps to be carried out in class;
for 54% it would be a fundamental activity, for 34% as a minimoutile.
These are some of the data collected by the survey that the Guarantor for the protection of personal data commissioned to "Skuola.net", in view of the European Day for the protection of personal data, which the Authority decided this year to celebrate in a school. together with the boys.
The conference, entitled "Visible or supervised? Life in the Network" will be hosted on January 28 by the "Vittorio Emanuele II" Convention in Rome and will have about 60 students as protagonists.
At the center of the interventions of the components of the Guarantor Authority (Pasquale Stanzione, GinevraCerrina Feroni, Agostino Ghiglia, Guido Scorza) themes such as isocial networks, revenge porn, cyberbullying.
But first and foremost it will be the youngsters who will be called to express their own considerations, expose their experiences and ask questions about online privacy.
During the conference the informative videos made by the Guarantor will be projected to develop the awareness of the youngest in the use of the Net and to promote digital civic education.
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