General Article Children’s right to privacy in the digital age must be improved

Topic Selected: Child Rights Book Volume: 412
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A new report presented to the Human Rights Council says that maximising children’s privacy in the digital age means acting in their best interests, actively seeking children’s views and treating those views seriously.

Today’s children are the first generation to be born into a digital age, while their parents are the first to rear ‘digital children,’ according to a new report.

How this affects their privacy, as well as their development, is examined by the Special Rapporteur on the right to p...

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