New laws proposed to tackle youth cyber safety concerns

A Joint Oireachtas Committee has called for the appointment of a Digital Safety Commissioner to improve internet safeguards for children and young adults.

That is one of the recommendations in the committee’s report that also urges the introduction of a series of new laws to ban a number of online offences.

Offences identified include online harassment and stalking, the distribution of threatening, false, indecent or obscene messages and the distribution of intimate images without the consent of the person depicted.