Angara calls for stricter digital protection for students

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Department of Education Secretary Sonny Angara urged technology and social media firms to implement tougher age-verification controls and delete online content that highlights…

Department of Education Secretary Sonny Angara urged technology and social media firms to implement tougher age-verification controls and delete online content that highlights violence and targets young learners into radicalization.

"We agree that we need stronger safeguards against these terrorist recruitment groups, online groomers. We need to protect our children online, and we really need stricter firewalls, not systems where a child who isn’t even in high school can just click that they are 18 years old.

Angara said the call came amid President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive to all government agencies to seek lasting solutions to the complex issue of school violence.

Following Marcos’ orders, the Department of Education (DepEd) has created a task force with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center…

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