Small rant: Ofcom's role is not to prevent children ... but to prevent companies from serving harmful content to children.

'Ofcom’s role in preventing children from accessing inappropriate digital content has been expanded since the passing of the OSA.'
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Small rant: Ofcom's role is not to prevent children ... but to prevent companies from serving harmful content to children.

'Ofcom’s role in preventing children from accessing inappropriate digital content has been expanded since the passing of the OSA.'
uktech.news/news/governmen…

We are really looking forward to this chance to present our new book at LSE. LSE Media & Communications LSE Inequalities Penguin Books UK

Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Books UK Hear from authors and experts! The book is available for pre-order at: bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-med…

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🔜Last few days to sign up, join us next Tuesday to celebrate the launch of 'Digital Media Use in Early Childhood' with the authors & discussants.

Tuesday 7 May 2024
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

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Join Digital Society Network (University of Sheffield)'s next annual lecture: How UK EdTech policy fails to protect children's rights in the digital society.

Sonia Livingstone will explore students’ safety, privacy and other rights, alongside a regulatory “blueprint” for education data.

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T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon slapped with $200M fine — here’s what they illegally did with your data mashable.com/article/fcc-fi…

3/ Hear from authors and experts on #EarlyYears #ScreenTime #DigitalParenting #Grandparenting - #LeliaGreen #SusanDanby #BeebanKidron #BrianONeill Sonia Livingstone

The book can be pre-ordered at bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-med…
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The FCC has fined various companies tens of millions of dollars each for unauthorized sharing of consumer location data. fcc.gov/document/fcc-f… In this $57M fine to AT&T, there’s an option for AT&T to just put it on the credit card . . .

6/📕 Hooper, Louise, Livingstone, Sonia and Pothong, Kruakae (2022) Problems with data governance in UK schools: the cases of Google Classroom and ClassDojo. Digital Futures Commission, 5Rights Foundation, London, UK. eprints.lse.ac.uk/119736/

5/📕 Turner, Sarah, Pothong, Kruakae and Livingstone, Sonia (2022) Education data reality: the challenges for schools in managing children’s education data. Digital Futures Commission, 5Rights Foundation, London, UK eprints.lse.ac.uk/119731/

4/ Here is a list of studies that have informed our position:

📕 Digital Futures Commission (2023) A blueprint for education data: realising children’s best interests in digitised education. . Digital Futures Commission, 5Rights Foundation, London, UK. eprints.lse.ac.uk/119737/

🚸The UK Online Safety Act gives tech statutory duties to keep kids safe

📢5Rights + 20 children’s orgs have written to @ofcom to set out our baseline of how tech must comply: 5rightsfoundation.com/in-action/enfo…

Sonia Livingstone will be speaking at the
Westminster Insight Data Protection
Conference next Tuesday 30 April, 2-2.30pm on protecting children's data.

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#childrensrights #edtech #parentalconsent #onlinesafetyact #onlineprivacy

“However, all three of us felt that the full detox was undesirable… and we felt it was unsustainable to permanently remain in the ‘detox’ mode.” New CLA Blog - Unplugging to Understand: A By Teens, For Teens Study of Social Media connectedlearning.news/cla010324 #SocialMedia Labfront