The government and major technology companies form a council to promote the protection of children on the internet.

These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

Parents are to be warned about the dangers of leaving children unsupervised on computers as part of the UK's first ever strategy on internet safety, to be published next week.

A study released for Safer Internet Day 2009 shows that Britons take more practical action to screen their children from the dangers of the internet than anyone else in the EU. They are most likely to use filtering software (77 per cent) and most likely to talk to their children about what they do online (87 per cent).

Who knows what our teenage children get up to on the internet. We do not have any filters or blocks on our internet access at home. We do not believe in that sort of censorship and, in any case, if they want something and cannot get it at home, they will get it somewhere else. All four of our children are avid Facebookers. Seems harmless enough though I must say I have concerns that, once you join...

My initial reaction to Gordon Brown's plan to connect 1.4 million households with children to the internet is that the whole initiative begs more questions than it answers. Superficially, he is right that an internet connection at home is an...

By overwhelming majority, the European Parliament yesterday (22 October) approved a new programme to make the Internet safer for children. The initiative builds on a 2005 'Safer Internet' plan by encompassing newer Web 2.0 communication services like social networking.

Some time ago Labour floated the idea of "free", i.e. taxpayer funded internet connections for all children, i.e. another vote buying activity. This reappeared in the Labour Conference 2008. The government paying for your internet? Some think that is a good thing, but regardless of your hatred or obsession over "redistribution", there is a massive bear trap awaiting this good intention. Once the g...

The EU will have a new Safer Internet Programme as of 1 January 2009. Following the overwhelmingly positive vote on 23 October in which the European Parliament expressed its support for the new Safer Internet Programme, the Council of Ministers has adopted yesterday the new Programme.

Parents must take responsibility for their children's internet use an impractical website rating system will protect no one.