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Digital Child Protection is Not Censorship

Document Type

Essay

Publication Date

2023

Publication Title

The Privacy Advisor

Abstract

The digital revolution unleashed many good things on our world, but like most human inventions, digital products have been a mixed blessing. While we now have access to information, communication and shopping services that would have been the stuff of science fiction several decades ago, we must also reckon with the dark lining of the internet's silver cloud. These new problems include misinformation and disinformation, cyber-abuse, nonconsensual pornography, addictive technology products, and an unprecedented mental health crisis among children and young people.

Keywords

Privacy, Social Media, Children, Censorship, Digital Privacy, Mental Health

Publication Citation

Neil M. Richards and Oliver Khairallah, Digital Child Protection is Not Censorship, The Privacy Advisor (June 15, 2023), https://iapp.org/news/a/digital-child-protection-is-not-censorship/

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