{"id":139960,"date":"2025-05-13T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/will-the-eu-ban-phones-at-school\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:15:50","slug":"will-the-eu-ban-phones-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/will-the-eu-ban-phones-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the EU ban phones at school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139960\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>That\u2019s one of several ideas floated by EU education and youth ministers meeting in Brussels this week, alongside proposals for tougher age checks, restrictions on social media for minors, and an EU-wide action plan to tackle cyberbullying. EU ministers gathered on Monday to discuss how to better protect young people online \u2013 from misinformation and addiction to digital harassment. While not all proposals are likely to make it into law, the message was clear: the EU wants to get tougher on tech when it comes to kids.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phones out of the classroom?<\/em><br \/>\nOne of the suggestions was a full ban on mobile phones in schools. Several EU countries have already gone down that path: France, the Netherlands, Italy, some Spanish regions, and more recently, Luxembourg, have introduced school-wide bans on phones during the day. Speaking to Euronews in December, Ben Carter, professor of medical statistics at King\u2019s College London, said: \u201cNobody has the answer to whether banning them in schools is a good thing or a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some governments want to go further. France has proposed a Europe-wide ban on social media for under-15s. \u201cIn the absence of a European agreement, France will have to take action,\u201d said Clara Chappaz, France\u2019s minister for artificial intelligence. She added that she would try to \u201crally a coalition, with Spain, Greece, and now Ireland, to convince the European Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has also backed tighter rules, calling last year for a ban on smartphones for children under the age of 11 and tougher age verification on social media platforms. Spain\u2019s Secretary of State for Youth and Children, Rub\u00e9n P\u00e9rez Correa, stressed the need for more robust online age checks. He highlighted a new child protection law under discussion in the Spanish parliament, which would expand the use of the Cartera Digital \u2013 a national ID wallet app to access adult sites \u2013 to verify that users are over 18 before watching YouTube videos or creating an account on social media. Spain is also calling for stronger parental control systems to be built into platforms by default.<\/p>\n<p><em>The EU\u2019s age-check problem<\/em><br \/>\nBut so far, there\u2019s no reliable and privacy-friendly system in place to verify users&#8217; ages online. Meta \u2013 the parent company of Facebook and Instagram \u2013 says responsibility should vest with app stores, calling for checks to be done at that level instead.<\/p>\n<p>Several EU laws already require platforms to check the age of their users. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) include provisions to shield children from harmful content, while the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers data privacy for minors. The proposed Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) regulation, still under negotiation in the Council of the EU, would also require effective age identification to shield children against predators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some movement to be done, we need the European Commission and cooperation. Single countries will not be able to put effective age limitation [in place], whereas together it can be done,\u201d Poland\u2019s Education Minister Barbara Nowacka told Euronews. \u201cIt is possible, but it is of course a long-term project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>EU Commission: child safety is a priority<\/em><br \/>\nYouth organisations invited at the Council\u2019s table urged the EU to better enforce existing laws \u2013 such as the DSA, AVMSD and the \u201cBetter Internet for Kids\u201d strategy \u2013 which already contain tools to protect younger users but are often under-implemented. European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, Glenn Micallef, told Euronews that several new initiatives are in the pipeline, including EU-wide guidelines on child protection, an action plan against cyberbullying, and a new study into the mental health impact of social media \u2013 due to be published before the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/05\/12\/will-the-eu-ban-phones-at-school\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/will-the-eu-ban-phones-at-school\/\">Will the EU ban phones at school?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18770,274,799,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-139960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ban-phones","tag-eu","tag-school","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}