boyd d

Cohen JE

Cortesi S

Douglas M

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

Federle KH

Freeman MDA

Lansdown G

Livingstone S

Macenaite M

Mc Cullagh K

Milda Macenaite

Pierson J

Savirimuthu J

Schermer BW

Shmueli B

Stalford H

Van Kokswijk J

 The new European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation aims to adapt children’s right to privacy to the ‘digital age’. It explicitly recognizes that children deserve specific protection of their personal data, and introduces additional rights and safeguards for children. This article explores the dilemmas that the introduction of the child-tailored online privacy protection regime creates – the ‘empowerment versus protection’ and the ‘individualized versus average child’ dilemmas. It concludes that by favouring protection over the empowerment of children, the Regulation risks limiting children in their online opportunities, and by relying on the average child criteria, it fails to consider the evolving capacities and best interests of the child. </jats:p

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From universal towards child-specific protection of the right to privacy online: Dilemmas in the EU General Data Protection Regulation

From universal towards child-specific protection of the right to privacy online: Dilemmas in the EU General Data Protection Regulation

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