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This week saw Safer Internet Day, when the theme was Prepare / Protect / Thrive: Navigating Algorithms and Influencers. Excessive internet use is spiraling and recent CSO figures reveal that 8 in 10 are on the internet almost all day, every day.

Protecting children online has been raised as an issue of critical importance with Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg by Fine Gael TD Hildegarde Naughton.

The commercialisation of personal data by social media companies, and the harvesting of such data by companies like Cambridge Analytica, show the need for stronger online protections for children and young people.