It’s none of their business! Children’s understanding of privacy in the platform society

We live in a platform society. What we do online is immediately shared within a lucrative global data ecology and managing our “privacy settings” does not impact on data privacy. So how can we expect children to take responsibility for their privacy online or understand data commercialisation and profiling? Sonia Livingstone talks about her research with Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri in this post based on a short essay for the 5Rights Foundation’s recent publication on The Future of Childhood in the Digital World – all the essays are open-access, and you can also watch the launch chaired by Baroness Beeban Kidron.