iPad play. Aikawa Ke/Flickr. Some rights reserved.The Queen’s Speech promised new laws to ensure that the United Kingdom retains its world-class regime protecting personal data. And the government proposes a new digital charter to make the United Kingdom the safest place to be online for children.
It sounds good. But government must not misuse the child safeguarding label as a false flag in data protection, and apply new rules to everyone but itself.
While pointing the finger at big social media platforms the government may hope we don’t look too closely at how their own national policies undermine children’s rights, and make children less safe.
