🇨🇦 Canada’s new Children’s Privacy Code sets strong expectations for protecting children’s data, but it can’t introduce binding requirements. Without stronger, enforceable laws, meaningful accountability for tech companies remains out of reach. 🔗 5rightsfoundation.com/canada-intro...

🗓️ What can children’s lived experiences tell us about the digital environments being made for them? On Friday October 23, #DigitalFutures4Children celebrates 3 years of research with discussions on digital classrooms, age-appropriate design and AI. 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

💬 “We need to know that the technology and teaching methods being used are tried and tested, effective, and safe.” 📱 Sonia Livingstone spoke to Times Radio about screen use in schools and the need for evidence-based EdTech. 🎧 (begins 18m 30s): www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

What happens when breaking the rules costs tech companies less than following them? As #TheSocialReckoning turns the spotlight on Meta, Leanda Barrington-Leach examines whether regulation can hold tech companies accountable. Read in @theobserveruk.bsky.social: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Online safety laws mean little without effective enforcement. Meta, TikTok and X are challenging aspects of the UK’s Online Safety Act in court. 5Rights is intervening in support of Ofcom to help ensure the law has real teeth. www.politico.eu/article/meta...

AI is reshaping children’s lives, whether or not they use it. Join #DigitalFutures4Children on 15 October to explore what the evidence tells us about AI and children’s rights, and what this means for policy. 🗓️ 🕑 Oct 15: 14:00–15:00 BST 💻 Online www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/webin...

🚸Children are already bearing the cost of AI that was never proven safe for the classroom. Earlier this month at UNESCO #DigitalLearningWeek Over 25 education Ministers have called for evidence of safety and educational benefit before AI is deployed in schools. 5rightsfoundation.com/over-25-coun...

What if we stopped asking children to adapt to unsafe technology – and started asking technology to be safe for children? That’s the thinking behind 5Rights #ChildhoodRedrawn campaign. Read Leanda Barrington-Leach’s op-ed for Eurochild: eurochild.org/news/childho...

‘No child should be a guinea pig for unregulated AI.’ Brazil protects 51 million children from manipulative AI. Elsewhere, millions of children face risks. At UN General Assembly, Governments must turn  obligations into concrete action. 🔗 Read our call: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

For years, evidence pointed to design as the key risk to children online. The EU KIDS Act reflects this shift but its strongest safeguards only apply to social media & video-sharing apps. But every product, including EdTech & AI, should apply these rules. 🔗 5rightsfoundation.com/new-eu-kids-...

🔄 The burden of proof is flipping. At today's #SOTEU address, it was announced that platforms will now have to prove kids are safe, not the other way around. 📍🇫🇷 Our #ChildhoodRedrawn campaign was in Strasbourg, right where von der Leyen was making her address 5rightsfoundation.com/soteu-2026-p...

✏️ Tech companies have spent two decades redrawing childhood. 🇪🇺 Tomorrow, President von der Leyen delivers her State of the Union address - we're telling policymakers to prove products are safe before they reach a child. Join us 🔗 5rightsfoundation.com/childhood-re... #ChildhoodRedrawn #SOTEU

💬 “Restricting bad things is not the same as having a blanket ban.” Infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, algorithmic feeds - these are some of the specific features designed to hook children. Restrict them, and you force platforms to redesign the system itself, not just lock kids out.

📱Today, 5Rights Executive Director, Leanda Barrington-Leach was at the Conference on Online Safety for Children and Young People organised by the Irish Presidency to the EU. She argued that if we want to keep children safe online, we must ensure that tech is safe by design.

📱⚖️ Regulate tech, not kids. We are proud to join 140+ orgs & experts in a letter to EC President von der Leyen ahead of her #SOTEU address: ensure tech companies prove their products are safe and age-appropriate before for all children. 🔗 Read the letter: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

In 2017, 14-year-old Molly Russell took her own life. A coroner found social media contributed to her death. The documentary ‘Molly Vs The Machines’ traces follows her father’s fight to understand what happened. In Belgium, watch Sun 6 Sept, 22:10, Be Ciné (BeTV) www.mollyvsthemachines.com/trailer

💬 “We shouldn't be having court cases to deal with harms 10 years later.” Meta is making changes to protect children in the US. So why should children elsewhere have to wait? 🎧 Hear 5Rights’ Leanda Barrington-Leach on The Europeans podcast: podmust.com/podcast/thee...

🧒📱 Whether or not a child uses AI, AI is already shaping decisions about them. A new evidence review by Smera Jayadeva & Sonia Livingstone (#DigitalFutures4Children) maps AI's harms, gaps and blind spots for kids. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...

⚖️📱Meta just settled a child online safety trial in the US for $17 billion. No business pays that out unless it knows it had a case to answer. A settlement isn’t a solution – limiting access will not stop exploitation. Tech must be safe by design and default, and certified before it reaches a child.

📚 Last year Australia banned social media for under 16s. But the people affected the most were barely consulted. This anthology presents global contributions on how to best centre children’s own experiences in the debate about their digital lives. 🔗 researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

Children must understand the technologies that shape their lives. Critical AI literacy can help them recognise both the opportunities and risks of AI. 125+ orgs are urging governments to support children with the resources needed to navigate AI safely. 🔗 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

Are we adopting #EdTech faster than we can study its impact? 📱 A review of 2,100+ global studies by the #DigitalFutures4Children centre & @5rightsfound.bsky.social reveals major research gaps around student privacy, wellbeing & digital rights, not just test scores: www.lse.ac.uk/news/researc...

Educational Technology | Children | Learning

56 research reviews covering more than 2,100 studies from around the world found educational technology can improve learning when used well, but warned that existing research has focused overwhelmingl...

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Children should have a say in the technologies shaping their lives. AI systems shouldn’t be designed without listening to the kids they affect. 🔗 Read the call of 125+ organizations urging governments to put children’s voices at the heart of AI decisions: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

Kids shouldn’t be left powerless when their rights are harmed.They need ways to seek help, challenge decisions and get violations addressed. Read the call of 125+ orgs and experts asking for remedies with 10 clear steps to protect child rights in the age of AI. 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

🧑‍🏫 EdTech needs to pass the test. A new review of 2,100+ studies reveals gaps in what we know about EdTech, from learning experiences and wellbeing to how different children are affected. 📖 Read more: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/ass...

A scoping review of the impact of EdTech on children’s learning

Despite investments in EdTech, its success for learning is unclear. This scoping review warns of a lack of evidence about the wider impact of EdTech on kids.

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📚 Great to see the Raspberry Pi Foundation's draft principles for safe and responsible EdTech draw on work from 5Rights Foundation and the Digital Futures for Children centre. A valuable contribution to putting children's rights at the heart of digital learning. www.raspberrypi.org/app/uploads/...

Children must understand the technologies shaping their lives. 🔗 Read the call from 125+ orgs governments to require clear, age-appropriate explanations with 10 steps to protect children’s rights in the age of AI: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

Children’s rights do not depend on where they live or what technology they use. Regulatory gaps must not leave some kids with weaker protections. We’re urging governments to close loopholes with 10 clear steps to protect children’s rights in the age of AI. 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

Children want technology that supports them, not technology that constantly watches them. We’re joining 120+ organizations calling on governments to prohibit unlawful digital surveillance of children in educational, commercial and care settings. 🔗 Statement: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...

Kids believe that if companies build AI, it’s on them to make it safe, not on parents and children. We’re joining 100+ organizations urging governments to hold them accountable with 10 clear steps to protect children’s rights in the age of AI. 🔗Read our call: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...