What is the Code for Children’s Rights and why is it so important?

Digital technologies and services, among which various apps and games, play an increasingly important role in children’s lives. While digital technologies and services make a valuable contribution to children’s development, however, practice has shown that the design choices related to their development are not always made in the best interests of the child. To ensure that digital technologies and services are designed in a childfriendly manner, Simone van der Hof of the eLaw Centre for Law and Digital Technologies - in collaboration with the De Waag Technology & Society and commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations - has drawn up a code for digital children's rights which aims to give technology designers and developers concrete tips and tools for the implementation of children's rights in their products to ensure that new technologies exposed to children - whether directly or indirectly - are created with the best interest of the child in mind from the very start.

In this episode of The Law of Tech Podcast, I explored the origins and contents of the Code for Children’s Rights with Simone van der Hof, Academic Director and Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden Law School.

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