c2L04 - Legal Risks

Last modified by Daniel Nübling on 2022/08/03 08:12

Legal Risks

Although the Internet is often seen as an independent space without rules, it is by no means a lawless place. To prevent children and young people from becoming victims in the virtual world or committing legal violations themselves, parents should familiarize them with the legal basics of the Internet.

Method / Process description

Input: Introduce participants to the topic by giving examples of legal internet discussion in your country, e.g.:
- Discussions about the implications of Brexit on legal internet issues: https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2020/02/internet-law-pre-post-brexit/
- Regulation of Spanish online casinos: https://www.diariodevalderrueda.es/texto-diario/mostrar/2956829/impacto-nueva-regulacion-casinos-online-economia-espana
- Monitoring of encrypted chat messages by German domestic intelligence: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verfassungsschutz-ueberwachung-verschluesselte-nachrichten-101.html
Exercise "What is Illegal on the Internet?":
- On the board gather with participants which legal violations could be relevant for children and young people on the internet. As the situation is different in every country we can't give you an exact list here. For Germany potential crimes are listed in Module 6 > 6.2. Accompanying children in their use of digital media > Risks for children and young people online > Legal Violations.
- You find further information about these risks in the Cumila sections:
  - Module 3 Information gathering and opinion formation > Managing and using information from the Internet > Using information from the Internet
  - Module 4 Security, privacy and safety > My data, my rights
- Roughly group the violations into the following categories. You can use the images in the printable to illustrate your collection:
  - insults, defamation and slander
  - personal and privacy rights (e.g. own pictures, personal sphere,...)
  - property rights (e.g. copyright content)
  - pornography (distributing it, making it)
  - stalking
- To get a better understanding of the situation in your country split up the class into as many groups as the number of collected violations. Each group researches one violation on the internet for 10 minutes. Put the results on the board:
  - What exactly is illegal?
  - Is there any information material for children and young people?

Rights and Duties on the Internet

Reflection: Let participants search on the internet for the term "sharenting" and let them write a list of dos and don'ts. Exchange results in the group and discuss them. What is participants opinions: do kids have a right to say that they don't want their pictures published on the internet?