Experts warn against excessive monitoring of children’s movements
London — Last week the UK government brought new rules into force for online firms, aimed at safeguarding how children are profiled and tracked on the internet. And yet with millions of children back in school this month, their movements are frequently tracked by another party — parents.
Ireland’s data protection regulator says in its draft guidance that geolocation tracking should be turned off “by default for child users.” And the UN has said in its Convention on the Rights of the Child that “parents’ and caregivers’ monitoring of a child’s digital activity should be proportionate and in accordance with the child’s evolving capacities.”
“Does this software actually keep our children safer?” asked Lorrie Cranor, a public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon, who has studied how children interact with technology and who does not track her own children. “If it doesn’t keep them safer, then why are we doing this?” “In data protection law there is an assumption that parents know best ... but this is not the case at all,” Milkaite says. “Parents need a lot of guidance about how the online world operates.”
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