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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Digital Agenda: Coalition of top tech & media
companies to make internet better place for our kids</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Dec 01, 2011, Brussels - 28 leading companies have
come together to form a new Coalition to make a better and safer internet for
children. Put together by the European Commission, founding Coalition members
are:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="at2">Apple,
BSkyB, BT, Dailymotion,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="at5">Deutsche Telekom</span><span class="at2">, Facebook,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>France Telecom-Orange,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="at2">Google, Hyves, KPN,
Liberty Global, LG Electronics, Mediaset, Microsoft, Netlog, Nintendo</span><span class="at6">, Nokia,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="at2">Opera Software, Research in Motion, RTL Group, Samsung, Sulake,
Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Telenor Group, Tuenti, Vivendi</span></span><span class="at7"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span class="at2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Vodafone.</span></span><span class="at7"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span></p><p class="a3520normal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 12.75pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
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<span class="at4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">The founding Coalition members have agreed
a</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/docs/ceo_coalition_statement.pdf"><span class="at4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#15669F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Statement
of Purpose</span></span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span class="at4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">agreeing to take action in five areas:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "></span></p>
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</span></span><span class="at11"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Simple and robust reporting tools:</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">easy-to-find and recognisable features on
all devices to enable effective reporting and responses to content and contacts
that seem harmful to kids;</span></p>
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</span></span><span class="at11"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Age-appropriate privacy settings:</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">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<span class="adefault20paragraph20fontapple-style-span"> than
to the general public)</span>;</span></p>
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</span></span><span class="at11"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Wider use of content classification:</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">to develop a generally valid approach to
age-rating, which could be used across sectors and provide parents with
understandable age categories;</span></p>
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</span></span><span class="at11"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Wider availability and use of parental control:</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">user-friendly tools actively promoted to
achieve the widest possible take-up;</span></p>
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</span></span><span class="at11"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Effective takedown of child abuse material</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">: to improve cooperation with law
enforcement and hotlines, to take proactive steps to remove child sexual abuse
material from the internet.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">For more information see press-release</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="line-height: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1485&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1485&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#0065CC;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1485&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en</span></a></span></p>
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