The children’s privacy and online safety regulatory landscape is evolving quickly. To keep up, companies subject to U.K. law should understand their users, enhance safety features and conduct risk assessments, all while...more
More than 350 leaders from child protection NGOs, victim advocacy groups, research organisations, technology providers, domestic and international police forces, and advisors convened in London last month to tackle the global...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, has published an opinion on age assurance for internet society services (ISS). The opinion aims to explain how a company can use technology in...more
Following the introduction of the Age-Appropriate Design Code (the Code) on 2 September 2021, companies have questioned whether the Code applies to their online service. A recent consultation by the ICO seeks to clarify when...more
Both the EU and UK GDPR grant data subjects rights in relation to their personal data. Article 15 gives data subjects the right to access their personal data and increasingly, data subjects are exercising this right by...more
One in five United Kingdom ("UK") internet users are under 18, and, according to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (the "ICO"), "are using an internet that was not designed for them." Under the UK's Data Protection Act...more