The Province is moving forward on three important actions to keep kids and young people safe from online threats, restrict cellphones in school and hold social media companies accountable.

The announcement includes three concrete actions to keep kids and young adults safe:

restricting the use of cellphones in schools;
launching services to remove images from the internet and pursue predators; and
legislation to hold social media companies accountable for the harm they have caused.
Research shows that frequent cellphone interruption in the classroom, social media platforms with addictive algorithms and predators who seek to exploit young people all present significant risks to young people. Studies have found that children’s mental health and physical safety can suffer as a result of body-image distortion, cyberbullying, images shared without consent and disturbing instances of sextortion.

The Province will work with school districts to ensure all schools have policies in place by the start of the next school year to be able to restrict students’ cellphone use in the classroom.

You can read the full press release by clicking on this link.