4. From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?

As the online world continues to develop, possible risks and harms do too. Business models can encourage the promotion of harmful content via algorithms, and children’s data is too often viewed as a commodity. Often, legislation is left scrambling to keep up with tech – and even when it’s successfully passed, evidence ‘supporting’ it can be conflicting (or simply lacking). In-between all this, the rights of children can be sidelined or infringed upon.
But are we yet in a good place for tackling some of these challenges? And if not, where next?

Helping Vicki answer this question is Sonia Livingstone, professor at the London School of Economics and Director of the Digital Futures for Children Centre.

Talking points:

• How can regulation stay relevant in a world of generative AI and ‘innovation at speed’?
• Between parental controls and age verification, are we forgetting to ask key questions about child rights?
• Should we be following Australia in raising the digital age of consent, or does research say otherwise?

Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.
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