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PARIS: Ministers gathered for a digital G7 meeting in Paris Friday made progress on online child protection but only nodded to AI’s energy impact in a joint declaration on the sector’s challenges.
“Protecting minors online” is “an international priority”, France’s digital minister Anne Le Henanff said at a press conference after the summit chaired by France that capped months of negotiations.
The seven member countries -- Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and US -- agreed to recognise “a set of principles” to protect children online, notably through “age verification, protection of minors from the design stage of digital services” and “tackling illegal content”, Le Henanff said.
The declaration will make it possible “to be far more demanding” towards digital platforms and “leave them no choice but to change their way of working”.
