Question 12466 — digital

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Mr. Hubert Ott questions the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for artificial intelligence and digital technology, on the insufficient protection of minors in the face of digital fraud based on online manipulation techniques. More and more minors are targeted on social networks and messaging platforms by individuals usurping identities or posing as relatives, influencers or official services, with the aim of getting them to communicate security codes or validate actions allowing purchases of content or services billed on the telephone lines of legal officials. However, in many cases, despite the obvious fraudulent nature of the approach and the specific vulnerability of minors, the operators of telephony, payment platforms or service providers refuse any reimbursement, based on their general conditions when an authentication code has been transmitted, including when this transmission results from online manipulation techniques targeting a child. This situation places the entire financial risk on families, without sufficient consideration of the minority of the user or the methods of fraud used, even though parental control systems may be in place. Also, he would like to know if the Government plans to evolve the legal framework in order to better recognize the specificity of fraud by manipulation targeting minors, and to impose on platforms and billing systems reinforced reimbursement obligations when payments result from scams targeting children and, more broadly, to strengthen the responsibility of digital intermediaries in preventing these practices.

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1. 27 January 2026

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