Digital Guardianship: A Call to Arms for Safeguarding Our Children’s Future

It is no longer news that children’s lives are becoming increasingly impacted by the digital realm in our modern world. There are a wide array of educational resources, entertainment, and social connections available on the Internet. Despite this, it is possible to have a lot of online threats and vulnerabilities for children as a result of such a digital transformation. 

As parents, educators, policymakers, and technology companies begin to come together to create a younger generation’s online ecosystem which promises to be a safer one, it is clear that the importance of protecting children online has never been more apparent. 

Campaigners have welcomed a set of new regulations regulating how online services should deal with children’s data as they become effective as the regulations are set to take effect soon. It has been mandated that websites and apps take into account the “best interests” of their child users from Thursday onwards, to avoid fines of up to 4% of global revenue. 

The Age Appropriate Design Code was written into law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, which implemented GDPR for the UK as well.

The most traumatic thing a parent can go through is receiving a communication from a hacker informing them that their child’s most sensitive information is slated to be exposed on the Internet unless the school pays a ransom to get the information back. 

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