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A PLATFORM TO FIGHT AGAINST CIBERBULLYING

Daniel López, CEO of the enterprise Youforgetme, created this online platform in 2021, with the purpose to protect and educate childrens in a digital environment. In 2024, 96% of childrens between 10 - 15 years old used the internet some times, and about 70% possess a mobile phone accoding National Institute of Statistic (INE).

This platform permit eliminate all kinds of personal information online with only introducing some details about the person. He also launched the platform Mi Huella Digital in colaboration with Youforgetme, that's specialized and targeted only for the educational centers, and there's already 200 school participating offering the service to more than 10.000 students in Spain.

The platform detected cases that vulnerate the students imtimacy every week since it's startup, cases like an adolescence saves a classmate's foto and then edited it to simulate that she's nude and send it to his friends through Whatsapp; some created a Instagram profile of a classmate without his consentment...

Most of the time thecases are "digital accidents", that the actions are without bad intentions, but some are: 9,4% of students in Spain are victim of bullying in school, with 6,5% in presential form, 1,1% online and 1,8% from two parts.

To register to the platform it requires the person's name, DNI number, an a selfie to ensure the person is actually him/her. The platform is based on artificial inteligence to demostarte the results that are 80% similar to the photo. If the user wants the information deleted, the platform automatizes the process, without the importance if the information is updated by the user or other person.

It's a practic solution for the grave problem of  minor exposure online.


Reference:

Vila Galán, C. (2025, 09 of april). Una plataforma para combatir el ciberacoso. El País

https://elpais.com/sociedad/branded/nos-unen-las-personas/2025-04-09/una-plataforma-para-combatir-el-ciberacoso.html


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