Using virtual games on a safe manner
 

Parents should become familiar with the virtual world site (i.e. services and products offered by virtual worlds sites) and have a good understanding of how children spend their time online

The email address used to activate a child‘s account should always belong to a parent, not to the children.

Verify if the virtual world used by your children has a parental control or any other Internet filtering tool, and make sure such tools are activated.

Usually age is verified when purchase of merchandise is possible, but there is currently system to guarantee age verification.

Use tools to block access to undesirable websites.

Be aware that parental consent should be required to process sensitive personal data, access chat room, send unsolicited commercial e-mails and similar, communicate with children via mobile phone, collect data from the children via the web, use children‘s data for any direct marketing. Exercise options carefully.

Source: ENISA (http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/ar/deliverables/2008/children-on-virtual-worlds)

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