EU Commission Report on Social Networking Services out today
Today, on
Safer Internet
Day 2010, the EU Commission has published an extensive report about the safety approaches taken
on by the
EU Safer Internet Principles signatory companies.
Sulake, with its products
Habbo Hotel and
IRC-Galleria, is proud to be part
of this group.
The individual evaluations of the services can be found on the
EU Commission’s site. As you can read from the
Sulake report, we can honestly say that our safety approaches are currently
(and have always been) on a rather good level – of course there are always places to improve and we
work constantly to do more on this front.
Furthermore, even though we feel that Habbo Hotel belongs to the safest services on the
internet, our players are using many other services that may not be equally safe. Thus, we feel
that especially the user education is of utmost importance and we strive to work with different
organizations and governmental bodies to cover this area in a proper manner.
The
Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU shows an excellent example of
cooperation and goodwill of all the signatory companies – not to forget the contributing
organizations and researchers. We hope that many new services and companies join this
initiative.
Let’s keep up this good work!
Some background of the principles:
The Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU were signed on 10 February 2009 by 18 major
social networking service providers active in Europe, and joined by 2 further signatories in June
2009. All signatories, except Giovani.it, provided their self-declarations to the European
Commission by June 2009. The evaluation report of implementation of the Safer Social Networking
Principles presented today is based on an analysis of the companies' self-declarations and actual
testing of the respective sites from end of October to beginning of November 2009.