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Game-changer: Child rights-by-design

April 11, 2023 By Anne Leave a Comment

Even though the United States is the only country on the planet that hasn't ratified the nearly 34-year-old UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, US-based companies that serve kids and teens around the world no longer have any excuse not to uphold their rights. Why is that the case? Not "only" because young people's lives are now "digital by default," as psychology professor Sonia … [Read more...] about Game-changer: Child rights-by-design

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Research, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Digital Future Commission, Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC

Why I struggle mightily with the new Utah law

March 30, 2023 By Anne 4 Comments

Apologies. I am late in writing about this just-passed social media legislation in the state where I live, Utah (have to say my home state is Massachusetts). I'm late partly because I've been in denial. I can't believe that laws so disrespectful of teens' rights of privacy and participation could go on the books. And I can't believe that lawmakers of my generation – some of whom are loving … [Read more...] about Why I struggle mightily with the new Utah law

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: adolescent development, agency, Amanda Third, Article 12, Carrie James, child online safety, control paradigm, Emily Weinstein, Evan Greer, Fight for the Future, HB311, laws, legislation SB152, Megan Moreno, Privacy, Senator Wyden, UNCRC, Utah, youth voice

Global network of Net safety regulators: Let’s think on this

November 15, 2022 By Anne 3 Comments

In my last, pre-FOSI, post about this social media meltdown I told you I'd report back about what people would say about it at the conference. But there was actually very little said – only, rightfully, sadness for all the tech workers who've been laid off (my post has numbers). In his closing remarks, FOSI CEO Stephen Balkam even asked the audience to let him know of any job openings they're … [Read more...] about Global network of Net safety regulators: Let’s think on this

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Celene Craig, FOSI, General Comment 25, Global Online Safety Regulators Network, Julie Inman Grant, Mary Motofaga, Melanie Dawes, splinternet, Stephen Balkam, UNCRC, Young and Resilient Research Center, youth consultation

Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

December 28, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

What a year it has been for child online safety, right?! There was the adoption of General Comment 25, bringing all things digital into the global Convention on the Rights of the Child; the draft Online Safety Bill and Parliament’s response in the UK; the release of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s Safety by Design for the tech industry and investors; the Age Appropriate Design Code coming into … [Read more...] about Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: #DigitalDecade4YOUth, #GoodforMedia, Adam Mosseri, Age Appropriate Design Code, AI for Children, All Tech Is Human, Berkman Klein Center, Better Internet for Kids, C2PA, CRC, eSafety, European Commission, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Harvard University, Headstream, HX, Insafe, Instagram, Integrity Institute, Jeff Allen, Meta, metaverse, Netsafe, Online Safety Bill, People Make Games, Rebooting Social Media, Richard Blumenthal, Roblox, Safety by Design, Sahar Massachi, Sophie Zhang, Stanford University, systems thinking, Technology Coalition, Telosity, Trust and Safety Professionals Association, UN Convention, UNCRC, UX, Western Sydney University, whistleblower, Young and Resilient Research Center

Apple & the child online safety challenge

August 26, 2021 By Anne 3 Comments

2nd important update Sept. 19: As if in direct response to the open letter from privacy activists around the world, the WeProtect Global Alliance published their own statement saying Apple must not pause its expanded protections, the Guardian reported. I stand by my thoughts in the update just below. We need privacy activists and protection activists in the same room answering the questions: Would … [Read more...] about Apple & the child online safety challenge

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, sexual exploitation Tagged With: Alex Hern, Apple, Ben Thompson, Casey Newton, CDA, CDT, Center for Democracy and Technology, Children's Code, Convention on the Rights of the Child, COPA, digital rights, eSafety Commissioner, Facebook, Gillian Hadfield, Google, John Carr, Julie Cordua, Microsoft, NCMEC, Project Protect, Tech Coalition, Technology Coalition, Thorn, UNCRC

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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