Google gives tips to protect children online!

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This Tuesday (9) is Safer Internet Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about important issues related to online safety. And one of the highlights of this year's edition is parental mediation on internet use by young people and children. In other words, how parents can protect children online, control how much time their children spend online, what content they access and what they can do to protect them from threats.

According to a study conducted annually by Google for the date, the pandemic has changed the digital habits of young people and children. 83% of the parents interviewed say that their children took all their classes online.

And as a result of the pandemic, time spent online has increased: 70% of respondents said their children were able to spend more time online for social or entertainment purposes.

Children online are exposed to threats from the virtual uk mobile database the longer they remain connected. Parents’ main concerns are child grooming, access to inappropriate content, privacy, healthier digital habits, cyberbullying and discerning between truth and lies. To combat these, almost half of the parents and guardians interviewed (45.6%) said they had talked to their children about these topics during the pandemic.
For Margarita Abella Hernandez, Google's security education specialist, “it is important that parents are well-informed about the risks, but that they are also able to support and talk to their children to establish reasonable rules of use and create a trustworthy channel to listen to them or even to report content or criminals.”

Tips for protecting children online
In Brazil, 16% of parents said that their children were, at least once, victims of hackers who stole information from their accounts during the pandemic. It is important to make children aware of the importance of adopting strong and different passwords for different online accounts, never sharing them with third parties, and also activating two-step verification.


It is recommended that parents have a constant dialogue with their children about who they are talking to on the platforms they access. According to the study, 82% of Brazilian parents feel confident that their children will come to them in case of online safety issues, and 79% said they are well-informed enough about safety to talk to their children if they are approached.

A Family Guide created by Google provides tips and tools to make it easier to incorporate and practice good digital habits into your daily life, as well as suggestions for families on how to discuss, learn and think together about online safety.

To combat access to inappropriate content, the company offers Search tools, such as SafeSearch, which allow parents to filter content that may negatively affect their children.

To do this, you need to understand what content is appropriate for your child’s specific stage. A tool like Family Link helps set boundaries and allows parents to set rules (such as access to content, screen time, etc.) and guide their children.

Help with the search
Google says it works with law enforcement and child protection experts to find and remove child sexual abuse or child pornography content from all platforms and search results.

In Search, terms related to these topics now return a panel with information, reporting and help channels, such as Disque 100, from the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic; the National Cybercrime Reporting Center and HelpLine, both operated by Safernet.