TeliaSonera part of coalition of top tech companies to make internet a better place for kids TeliaSonera participates in the CEO Coalition being launched today, in response to a call for action from the European Commission. Leading companies have come together to form the CEO Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children. Put together by the Commission, founding Coalition members are: Apple, BSkyB, BT, Dailymotion, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, France Telecom-Orange, Google, Hyves, KPN, Liberty Global, LG Electronics, Mediaset, Microsoft, Netlog, Nintendo, Nokia, Opera Software, Research in Motion, RTL Group, Samsung, Sulake, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Telenor Group, Tuenti, Vivendi, Vodafone. Priority actions include making it easier to report harmful content, ensuring that privacy settings are age-appropriate, offering wider options for parental control, reflecting the needs of a generation that is going online at an increasingly younger age. "This new Coalition should provide both children and parents with transparent and consistent protection tools to make the most of the online world. The founding Coalition members are already leaders in children's safety online. Working together we will be setting the pace for the whole industry and have a great basis for protecting children online. The protection and safety of vulnerable users is central to TeliaSonera. We pay special attention to protecting children and young people from abuse within the scope of our services," said Cecilia Edström, Senior Vice President and Head of Group Communications TeliaSonera. The founding Coalition members have agreed a statement of purpose to take action in five areas: · Simple and robust reporting tools: easy-to-find and recognisable features on all devices to enable effective reporting and responses to content and contacts that seem harmful to kids; · Age-appropriate privacy settings: settings which take account of the needs of different age groups (such settings determine how widely available a user's information is; for example whether contact details or photos are available only to close contacts rather than to the general public); · Wider use of content classification: to develop a generally valid approach to age-rating, which could be used across sectors and provide parents with understandable age categories; · Wider availability and use of parental control: user-friendly tools actively promoted to achieve the widest possible take-up; · Effective takedown of child abuse material: to improve cooperation with law enforcement and hotlines, to take proactive steps to remove child sexual abuse material from the internet. The Coalition is a cooperative voluntary intervention. The Commission's expectation is that solutions developed by the founding members of the Coalition will be embraced by a growing number of companies, and new members will be welcome. For more information, please call the TeliaSonera press office 46-771 77 58 30, press@teliasonera.com (press@teliasonera.com) ----------------------------------------------------------- This information was brought to you by Cision http://www.cisionwire.com http://www.cisionwire.com/teliasonera/r/teliasonera-part-of-coalition-of-top-tech-companies-to-make-internet-a-better-place-for-kids,c9194725