Mobile phone safety - Code of practice is welcome

WORRIED parents of young children using mobile phones will welcome the new code of practice aimed at improving the safety of Irish youngsters.

Despite the undoubted advantages of the phenomenon, ranging from global communications, video photography, tracking devices and dramatic rescues, there is no disputing the fact that, in the wrong hands, the service is open to abuse.

The dangers became apparent when the Irish Examiner broke the news that gardaí were investigating reports of mobile phones being used to circulate indecent images of a teenage girl among Irish schoolchildren.