Greece has announced a plan to improve parental supervision of children’s mobile devices in 2025 through a government-run app. This will help verify the age of users and control browsing, according to AP News.
Dimitris Papastergiou, Greece’s digital governance minister, said the “Kids Wallet” app, which will be launched in March, aims to protect children under the age of 15 from the risks of excessive and inappropriate internet use.
The application will be managed by a widely used government service platform. “It’s a big change,” Papastergiou said, adding that the app will use advanced algorithms to monitor usage and enforce strict authentication processes.
“The Kids Wallet app will do two important things”
“The Kids Wallet app will do two important things: It will make parental controls much easier, and it will be our official national tool for verifying the age of users,” he said.
A survey published in December by a Greek research organization, KMOP, found that 76.6% of children between the ages of 9 and 12 access the Internet through personal devices, 58.6% use social networks daily, and 22.8% have encountered inappropriate content so far.
According to the study’s authors, most kids don’t know basic safety tools like the lock and report buttons.
Papastergiou said the government hopes to have the app pre-installed on all smartphones sold in Greece by the end of 2025.
Source: www.descopera.ro
