Welcome to another week.
A report recently published by the University of Winchester argues that children should have their own, independent right to privacy, separate from their parents’ own views about privacy.
The publication follows the Government’s announcement this month that it will create a new Data Protection Bill, giving people a right to force social media companies to delete their personal data, including social media posts from childhood.
A workshop was held to look at the ways in which a child’s right to privacy might be implemented in law. Organisations who attended the workshop included Channel Four, the BBC, the Children’s Commissioner’s Office and academics from the universities of Winchester, Oxford, East Anglia, Sussex and Cambridge.
A total of 8 recommendations were made:
- Young children should have a privacy right independent from their parents’ privacy expectations.
- Encourage debate on the objectification of children online, internet bullying and standards needed to ensure children are treated fairly as they surf the web.
- More research into the impact of broadcast media exposure of young children is needed to understand what effect it has on them, both positive and negative.
- The creation of a Children’s Digital Ombudsman to represent children’s interests in relation to all forms of digital publications.
- Controller hosts (social platforms like Twitter and Facebook) and independent intermediaries (like Google), should have a duty of care to consider young
children’s privacy and best interests in their operations. - The duty of care should make information privacy a default setting. The extent of that privacy should increase in line with the social media service’s interests in promoting, controlling and profiting from the publication of images of young children.
- There should be a limit to the amount of sharing, copying and reworking of images relating to children.
- There should be more education for both children and parents about the impact of ‘sharenting’ (defined as parents “overusing” social media to share content based on their children).
Our question this week then, is just this: what do you think of the recommendations?
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While being in favour of the right to individual privacy, I believe that with mutual respect on the part of both parents and children, there must be a final veto by a responsible parent for underage children.
Parents have a responsibility for the care, welfare, and well-being of their offspring so should also be allowed to scrutinise, within reason, the kind of material they access.
Mutual respect for each other’s territory, correspondence and personal possessions is acquired over time. The degree of trust between both sides depends on the example set by the parents.
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While being in favour of the right to individual privacy, I believe that with mutual respect on the part of both parents and children, there must be a final veto by a responsible parent for underage children.
Parents have a responsibility for the care, welfare, and well-being of their offspring so should also be allowed to scrutinise, within reason, the kind of material they access.
Mutual respect for each other’s territory, correspondence and personal possessions is acquired over time. The degree of trust between both sides depends on the example set by the parents.
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I think that “children’s privacy” should no longer be used to gag mothers whose babies are confiscated at birth,when the real purpose to stop them protesting via the media under threats of jail.
I also believe that other law abiding parents whose children have been snatched should never be similarly gagged on grounds of chilren’s privacy when the real purpose is to conceal from the public the shameful actions of our local authorities and our family courts.
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Absolutely right Ian.
this could be used as an excuse to further the covert operations of corrupt Local Authorities. especially where children under the age of 10 are concerned. they are so easy to manipulate by LAs.
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