In this podcast we discuss the unintended consequences of sharenting, how parents’ desire to share with pride or to share to shame contravenes the rights of the child to privacy and how otherwise innocent postings of children can lead to abuse. Also the difference between “data” in Europe and “speech” in the US impacts childrens’ […]
In this safeguarding podcast, Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE discusses the Online Harms white paper, whether the UNCRC is fit for the digital age and why the USA hasn’t signed up to it, whether the FTC’s COPPA “digital age of consent” should be raised to 16 and why it’s 13 in the first place, and how
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There’s a problem coming and this problem is the unintended consequence of a well-intentioned development to protect privacy. This problem will mean that it will be much harder if not impossible to block and takedown illegal imagery of child sexual abuse online. To understand this conundrum, it’s necessary to get into the weeds of the
