Particle.news
Download on the App Store

Mexico’s Security Ministry Publishes Guidance for Children’s Safe Mobile Use

The advisory focuses on caregiver involvement to limit screen-related harms, strengthening online safety skills.

Overview

  • The Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, through its cyber intelligence unit, released nonbinding recommendations for how minors should use mobile devices.
  • The guidance seeks to prevent exposure to age-inappropriate material, including violence, hate speech, misinformation and sexual content.
  • It emphasizes active accompaniment by parents or caregivers and urges establishing clear screen-time limits to balance rest, family interaction, physical play and study.
  • Recommendations include turning on parental controls and content filters and setting age‑appropriate privacy settings, supported by open family dialogue about online risks.
  • The ministry notes links between excessive screen use and emotional problems, sleep disruption and social isolation, and directs families to the Ciberguía to reach cyber police or seek confidential reporting assistance.