With growing concerns over children’s online privacy and the commercial uses of their data, it is vital that children’s understandings of the digital environment, their digital skills and their capacity to consent are taken into...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri
The internet is now 30 years old, making it the same age as the key formulation of children’s rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the intervening years, our understanding of...Read more
Monday was Data Privacy Day, celebrated annually to raise awareness about people’s rights and good practice when it comes to data protection and privacy. Here, the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Rishita Nandagiri, Professor Sonia Livingstone and Mariya...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri
The almost daily news stories on data privacy and data breaches – including those affecting children – raise urgent questions as everyday activities and actions generate data that are recorded, tracked, collated, analysed and monetised...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri
More children are going online, more frequently, via more devices and services, at ever-younger ages. The internet and accompanying technological developments offer huge opportunities for children, but they also pose risks to minors’ safety, wellbeing...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone and Emma Goodman
Post-Cambridge-Analytica, and post-GDPR, children are becoming increasingly aware of how their data is being used online but there are still limits to their digital literacy. In this post, Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri
How do we balance children’s rights to cultural and social freedom with our duty to protect them from abuse and exploitation while also promoting a healthy and active lifestyle for children and young people?Â
One of the...Read more
