The European parliament prepared a proposal for a new data protection ordinance – at the same time e.g. in Turkey internet platforms like twitter were forbidden. Concerning to the topic data protection still people are really upset, so there is a high need to transform a wide spread feeling of insecurity into a feeling of security through education. The Consortium (consisting of experts from DE, FI, SL, TU and SI) will offer the project “Internet – no (an) extralegal room” as an opportunity for parents and consumers to enforce more personal responsibility regarding to data protection and data security. The Data-Protection-App (DAPPS) is the tool representing this opportunity. The consortium especially focuses on the data security of children and adolescents. The European Parliament in 2012 already called for “to identify and apply all present possibilities to protect children against dangers from the digital world and to train and educate parents systematically how they can protect their children.” The intention of the project “Internet – no (an) extralegal room” is to contribute something to this appeal. With our project we want to help parents to protect and appreciate the value freedom (in form of data protection) for their children and adolescents. Privacy is an important concern in our democracy, which is requiring from the parents and citizen online-competence. Within the population sufficient knowledge about the system of justice including provision for data protection is rare. Consequently, the internet for many parents and consumers seems to be an extralegal room. Education about justice concerning media use is a central concern of parental media education, which for a long time carved and shadowy existence. Insecurity and mistakes regarding to the use of new media are a consequence, which also affects sons and daughters. “Internet – no (an) extralegal room” will offer an educational tool in form of a Data-Security-App (DAPPS)”. In addition to that, important information about the topics “copyright law, technical security, contextual security, advertisement, cybermobbing etc. will be created in form of three minutes lasting educational cinema movies, which will be spreaded also by the App. Background information regarding to the previously mentioned topics will extend the offer for parents to address also the target audience consumers. The App will increase the understanding and sensibility of users of screen media for data protection. A password-check system will be available through the App in mobile form. The goal is that parents and their children can use the internet in a secure way and that all involved people are best as possible informed about the topic data protection and data security. To reach this goal we want to address parents there, where also their children are: Through knowledge-spreading-events in schools. The education offer:”Internet – no (an) extralegal room” will prepare these events for schools and will perform them as an example together with all partners of the project. Today, where it is common that children and adolescents get already early in contact with media use, data protection and data security is a question of appreciation of the democracy and personal freedom. With this meaningful learning idea, justice in Europe wants to create in a consortium sensibility for data protection and in addition to that wants with its results to contribute for security and enlightment. Within the closing symposium we want to discuss about the topic data protection and data security for children and adolescents together with representatives of schools, with data protection officers, politicians (regional, national and European) and also with representatives of the parents. During this symposium the tool APPS will be presented as a competent solution by offering concrete competence for action. A “positioning paper” containing wishes and desires regarding to the topic security and protection of children and adolescents within the internet will be given to the politics. We are actively contributing to the creation process of the European cross-cutting issue “Education for media-competence”, through the App by training of interpersonal, intercultural and social competences in Europe. The joint challenge for strengthening of media-competences of parents will necessarily soften cultural and traditional established educational methods and will create room for intelligent, sustainable and integrative learning. For spreading, in each partner country will be performed a generic major event in one school. Through the necessary procedure for estimating the demand for training and information regarding to the topic data security we get through to approximately 4000 parents in each country, who we invite for the generic major event in a school. For parents and consumers by DAPPS will be closed a huge leakage of data protection.
The European Parliament has initiated a draft for a new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – at the same time some Internet platforms like Twitter are forbidden, e.g. in Turkey. With the subject Data protection there is high uncertainty in the population about the not yet cleared NSA affair. This uncertainty must be urgently transformed into security through information and education. With the project “Internet – not (an) extralegal room”, a consortium consisting of TR, BG, SL, GR, AT and DE has created an opportunity for parents and consumers which contributes to more individual responsibility in the area of data protection and data security: The Data- Protection-App „DATAPP". It is especially the data security of children and young people which the consortium had in mind by creating this unique Europe-wide app. The European Parliament (2012) ”Supports […] efforts to promote systematic education and training for children, parents, educators, schoolteachers and social workers, aimed at enabling them to […] identify those dangers which could harm the physical or mental integrity of children, at reducing the risks related to digital media“. To contribute to this was the aim of the DATAPP-app which preceded a demand analysis with 900 filled in questionnaires. In the result of this demand analysis, whose target group were parents, it became clear that more than 90 percent of the questioned parents throughout Europe are worried, about the data security on the Internet. Due to this result our European syndicate took this meaningful task. With the use of this "DATAPP" parents and everybody in charge of education, as well as children and youngsters will learn to appreciate and to protect the value of freedom – in the form of data protection. Privacy is a high value in our democracy which presupposes an online literacy of parents and of all citizens. In the population knowledge of the judicial system is hardly spread including the data protection precautions, so that the Internet presents itself for many uninformed or ignorant parents and consumers as a kind of „extralegal room“. With the creation of the first European Data- Protection-App the consortium provided information about the topics: copyright, social networks, online competitions and conclusions of contracts, technical security and background information. The app was enlarged with a learning game for families. All contents are available in 7 languages. Further translation, for example an extension of the text written in Arabian language are being prepared. Besides, there is a password check which enables all users to check their passwords on security. This will train the data protection sensitivity of our adolescent children - and young people. All available contents were tested in 6 partner schools and adjusted culturally. To achieve a very wide range of action, a Europe-wide radio campaign with more than 5 million listeners was carried out on the Safer Internet day. This measure of dissemination resulted in television reports in Belgium and Bulgaria, so that in an early stage of the project the consciousness for the topic was already sharpened and a wide public was reached. As data security and -protection is no exclusive family subject, but a society-political subject, a political counsellor was activated at the beginning of the project, who introduced all project activities in political discussions. Thus, a final position paper with sociopolitical demands was also handed over to the political counsellor on the final symposium in Pleven (BG). In that paper requests were formulated especially on the subject Security and Protection for children and youngsters on the Internet. A central question is: "Who does my personal data belong to?" This question is not cleared, neither in national data protection laws nor in the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force in May 2018. With "DATAPP", the consortium contributes actively to the European cross section subject: "Media competence education" by interpersonal, intercultural and social competence. The common challenge of strengthening parents’ media literacy softens up cultural-traditionally tightened educational methods and creates space for intelligent, sustained learning. Every partner country hosted an exemplary big event in a school for the national dissemination. In the European context the consortium could make use of single memberships in the EVBB to disseminate the contents in every European member state. The conversion of "DATAPP" is an attractive answer to a global problem and strengthens the educational and political, as well as the parental responsibility for the present and future life and development of the adolescent generation in Europe.