The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the world to consider legislative regulation of smartphones, similarly to smoking measures. This call sounded against the background of increasing concern about the negative impact of digital technologies on young mental health.
He considers it necessary to impose age restrictions, control prices and create areas where smartphones are forbidden.
Azcpardi-Muscat believes that children should be "competent, equipped and authorized, so that they manage the digital world and prevent the digital world to govern them."
The WHO research, published last month, showed that every tenth European teenager has a digital dependence.
