The Australian federal government today introduced into parliament legislation for its social media ban for people under 16 years. Continue reading
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Tag: Children’s Rights
One in three children uses the internet, and one in three internet users is a child. Yet tech companies claim to be unable to determine who is a child online. This is a practical but also a political challenge – does society want to task companies with age-assessing all their users? Or is that too great a risk to the privacy and freedom of expression of both adults and children? Continue reading
A report from the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom confirms children are avid social media users. Some 99% of children aged three to 17 used the internet in 2021. YouTube was the most popular platform, with 89% of children using it. Meanwhile, half of kids used TikTok, a popular site which allows users to watch and share short videos. Continue reading
To others, this is a problem. I’ve heard it said that children should not be on the internet. That parents should keep children away from everyone else online. Or, while acknowledging that children are one in three of the world’s internet users, that governing the internet in their best interests is too difficult, expensive and impractical. Continue reading
The Online Harms What?’ Caught in the middle of a pandemic and Britain’s ongoing divorce from Europe, it is not surprising that a piece of media-related legislation might be lost in the quagmire of more important and pressing matters in British politics. But this past year has proven that we need legislation to protect all of us online, now more than ever. Continue reading
Children (and adults alike) seem to be ‘playing tag’ with a sophisticated and fast-changing digital environment whose privacy parameters are hard to define and consequences even harder to predict. Continue reading
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