Madrid (Spain), 11 Nov. (LaPresse) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has stated that it is necessary to ‘extend the protection of minors in the digital environment’ and, in this regard, has asked for the ‘support’ of the political forces in Parliament to approve the bill for the Protection of Minors in Digital Environments, which includes, among other measures, raising the minimum age for accessing social media to 16. ‘We are not considering making it compulsory to be 18 years old to have a smartphone, but we think that the minimum age for accessing social media should be raised to 16,’ said Sanchez, speaking at the presentation of the “Digital Childhood 2025” report. He went on to say that the crime of deepfake, i.e. creating a video or image manipulated with artificial intelligence, should be introduced into the criminal code, along with the penalty of “virtual removal” and the crime of grooming, i.e. luring minors online by posing as teenagers. All these measures are contained in the bill already approved by the Council of Ministers. “We must put an end to this type of behaviour; no click is worth more than childhood and adolescence,” explained Sanchez.
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