Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.22598/iele.2023.10.2.4
CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Anica Čulo Margaletić
; Univesity of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia
Barbara Preložnjak
; Univesity of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
Children today are born into a digital age, and their parents have obligations, including protecting their children’s rights in the digital environment. Many children have a digital footprint throughout their early life, owing largely to their parents’ behaviors on social media. Children’s use of social media, on the other hand, rises with age, and most teenagers have many social media profiles. A developing online environment can provide many benefits to children’s development, but it can also pose threats to their mental health and physical well-being, especially given children’s sensitivity due to their age in general and in the online realm. These facts create additional obstacles to the implementation and preservation of children’s rights, particularly the right to privacy. These difficulties occurred for parents first and foremost because of their primary duty to the child’s upbringing and development. As a result, it is critical to provide broader digital literacy education to enable children, as well as their parents, to explore technologies in intelligent, rights-respecting, and secure ways. The state’s responsibilities in assuring the protection of a child’s privacy, data protection, and safety in the digital age, i.e. its well-being, should also be considered through enacting suitable laws and procedures. It should also be recognized that required information on exercising children’s rights should be made available to them. The purpose of this article is to examine the potential for improving children’s privacy protection within the existing legal framework.
Ključne riječi
children’s rights; privacy; internet; digital environment
Hrčak ID:
313115
URI
Datum izdavanja:
29.12.2023.
Posjeta: 295 *