This is the second webinar in a series exploring the impacts of the digital world on human rights. It focuses on the rights of children and the importance and risks of children’s interactions online.
Children can benefit a great deal from the expansion of the digital world, particularly through greater access to educational materials and increases in social participation. This is especially the case with children in remote locations whose interactions are often enhanced through online activities. However, there are also dangers. These include violations of privacy and other harms through corporate practices and parental oversight, disinformation/misinformation and propaganda, cyberbullying, and grooming and sexual exploitation.
In this webinar, Professor Tama Leaver focuses on the practices of social media companies and breaches of children’s right to privacy including the use of data collected, and the implications of attempts to regulate these companies. Dr Rys Farthing addresses the way the digital world impacts on the rights of children in Australia and outlines some of the responses in the protection of these rights both domestic and international.
