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Peculiarities of processing children's personal data in mobile applications and games
Journal of Data Protection & Privacy,
6
(3),
283-294
(2024)
Abstract
Children and young people are often at the forefront of grasping the new and exciting opportunities the Internet can offer such as playing, communicating, experimenting with relationships and identities, learning, creating and expressing themselves. It is estimated that globally one in three of Internet users are under the age of 18. This paper examines how online platforms (Meta, Google, TikTok, etc.) protect children's personal data and how they determine whether consent is given by the correct person and whether the consent can be used as the lawful ground for processing personal data. This paper also observes the role of a parent or guardian in the giving of consent regarding the processing of a child's personal data. The paper will examine questions such as what is the digital age, what is the General Data Protection Regulation regarding the protection of children's personal data and what are the examples of European countries in this regard?
Keywords: children's personal data; consent; digital age; online marketing; parental control
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Author's Biography
Salome Sigua is a PhD Student at Tbilisi State University, Georgia. She is also a visiting lecturer at Tbilisi State University and a researcher at the Legal Entity of Public Law (LEPL) Georgian Parliamentary Research Centre. Her past working experiences include being a young researcher in the project ‘Strengthening the Standard of Human Rights Protection in Administrative Legislation’ (Ministry of Justice of Georgia), working as an assistant to the Judge at the High Council of Justice of Georgia, human resources manager and as assistant to the Head of the LEPL Civil Service Bureau of Georgia. For her academic achievements, she has twice been awarded the DAAD Scholarship, and she is currently an assistant in the project, ‘Balancing Privacy and Progress: Personal Data Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’.
