From universal towards child-specific protection of the right to privacy online
Dilemmas in the EU General Data Protection Regulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12656173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milda Mačėnaitė (Tilburg University, the Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 765-779 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444816686327 |
| OpenAlex | W2579211051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 22 |
The new European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation aims to adapt children’s right to privacy to the ‘digital age’. It explicitly recognizes that children deserve specific protection of their personal data, and introduces additional rights and safeguards for children. This article explores the dilemmas that the introduction of the child-tailored online privacy protection regime creates – the ‘empowerment versus protection’ and the ‘individualized versus average child’ dilemmas. It concludes that by favouring protection over the empowerment of children, the Regulation risks limiting children in their online opportunities, and by relying on the average child criteria, it fails to consider the evolving capacities and best interests of the child
Business · Child protection · Data Protection Act 1998 · Empowerment · European union · General Data Protection Regulation · International trade · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Limiting · Political science · Right to be forgotten · Right to privacy · Sociology · Computer Science · Data Privacy and Cybersecurity · Freedom of Expression and Defamation · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |