Consultative Commission on Human Rights considers it "urgent" to educate minors about sexual life on the Internet

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Protecting the privacy of young people online "requires making minors aware of their rights and obligations and providing them with help and support," the CNCDH stressed in an opinion published on Friday.

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Published01/24/2025 07:47
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The commission supports the idea of ​​"criminalising any gambling data spain hindrance to the right of children to benefit from emotional, relational and sexual education sessions". (BRUNO LEVESQUE / MAXPPP)
The commission supports the idea of ​​"criminalising any hindrance to the right of children to benefit from emotional, relational and sexual education sessions". (BRUNO LEVESQUE / MAXPPP)
The response provided by social networks and public authorities to the increasing attacks on the privacy of young people online "is not up to par" , believes the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH), in an opinion published on Friday, January 24. The latter considers it "urgent" to educate about sexual and emotional life.

Protecting the privacy of young people online "requires making minors aware of their rights and obligations and providing them with help and support," the CNCDH emphasizes in this opinion adopted almost unanimously (one abstention) on Thursday. "Beyond that, it is urgent to raise their awareness of sexual and gender-based violence, online and offline, which partly involves education on emotional, sexual and relational life guaranteed at all ages ," it adds.

Social networks must "go further in protecting minors"
The commission supports the idea of ​​"criminalising any hindrance to children's right to benefit from sessions on education in emotional, relational and sexual life" . Compulsory since the 2001 law, education in sexual and emotional life in schools is in fact only rarely applied.

A program was initially due to come into effect in September 2024, but it has been pushed back to the next school year. This program, contested by certain conservative fringes, is "absolutely essential", declared the Minister of Education, Elisabeth Borne, on Thursday.

Social networks, the CNCDH continues, must for their part "go further in protecting minors, by aligning their default settings with high protection standards" , and by investing in "programs for sharing and detecting 'hashes' - digital fingerprints - of intimate images ". As for the authorities, they "must remain very vigilant in the face of the rise of 'deepfakes' [doctored images] of a sexual nature and limit artificial intelligence systems likely to generate them" , believes the CNCDH.

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