Innocenti Research Briefs Brief: Predictive Analytics for Children: An assessment of ethical considerations, risks, and benefits AUTHOR(S) Zara Rahman; Julia Keseru Published: 2021 Innocenti Research Briefs This brief examines the potential ethical issues, including benefits and risks, associated with predictive analytics as they pertain to children. It is based on a more in-depth working paper, UNICEF Innocenti Working Paper 2021-08, which provides further detail, guidance, and tools. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 5 | Tags: access to information, data protection, decision making, identity, privacy, risk × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Zara Rahman; Julia Keseru 2021 Brief: Predictive Analytics for Children: An assessment of ethical considerations, risks, and benefits. , pp. 5.
Innocenti Working Papers Predictive Analytics for Children: An assessment of ethical considerations, risks, and benefits AUTHOR(S) Zara Rahman; Julia Keseru Published: 2021 Innocenti Working Papers This paper examines potential ethical issues, including benefits and risks, associated with predictive analytics as they pertain to children. It is designed to support readers in gaining an overview of the current state of the field, knowledge of real-world deployments of predictive analytics and ultimately, a deeper understanding of the opportunities and potential harms of deploying predictive analytics that directly or indirectly target children. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 87 | Tags: access to information, data protection, decision making, identity, privacy, risk × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Zara Rahman; Julia Keseru 2021 Predictive Analytics for Children: An assessment of ethical considerations, risks, and benefits. , pp. 87.
Innocenti Research Briefs What is encryption and why does it matter for children? AUTHOR(S) UNICEF’s Cross-divisional Working Group on Child Online Protection Published: 2020 Innocenti Research Briefs Encryption encodes information so that it can only be read by certain people. ‘End-to-end’ is a robust form of encryption where only the users communicating can read the information. In other words, third parties – such as service providers – cannot decrypt the information. It matters for children because while it protects their data and right to privacy and freedom of expression, it also impedes efforts to monitor and remove child sexual abuse materials and to identify offenders attempting to exploit children online. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 2 | Thematic area: Child Protection, Kids online, Rights of the Child | Tags: child protection, data protection, internet, law enforcement, privacy × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION UNICEF’s Cross-divisional Working Group on Child Online Protection 2020 What is encryption and why does it matter for children?. , pp. 2.
Innocenti Discussion Papers Child Privacy in the Age of Web 2.0 and 3.0: Challenges and opportunities for policy AUTHOR(S) Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha Published: 2017 Innocenti Discussion Papers We live in an information society, where the flow of information in the virtual environment is unprecedented. Web 2.0 platforms – and recently Web 3.0 platforms and the Internet of Things (IoT) – represent an important step forward in enhancing the lives of both adults and children everywhere, by combining greater efficiencies with a wide availability of new tools that can boost individual creativity and collective production. This new environment has exposed adults and children to fresh challenges that deserve special attention, especially those surrounding privacy. The main objective of this paper is to address the challenges posed to child privacy online and the impact that these challenges might have on other rights such as freedom of expression, access to information and public participation. To do this, the paper first analyses the current (and foreseen) threats to child privacy online and the various approaches adopted by government and/or the private sector to tackle this issue. The paper also examines whether children’s perspectives and needs are considered in international debates on technology regulation, including in regard to the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’. It then contextualizes the protection of privacy (and data protection) in relation to other fundamental rights in the online environment, arguing that in most cases this interaction is rather positive, with the enforcement of the right to privacy serving to protect other rights. The paper concludes by proposing some policy recommendations on how to better address the protection of children’s online privacy. These objectives are achieved through literature review and analysis of legal instruments. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 23 | Thematic area: Child Protection | Tags: data protection, internet, privacy, protection of children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha 2017 Child Privacy in the Age of Web 2.0 and 3.0: Challenges and opportunities for policy. , pp. 23.
Innocenti Working Papers Children and the Data Cycle:Rights and Ethics in a Big Data World AUTHOR(S) Gabrielle Berman; Kerry Albright Published: 2017 Innocenti Working Papers In an era of increasing dependence on data science and big data, the voices of one set of major stakeholders – the world’s children and those who advocate on their behalf – have been largely absent. A recent paper estimates one in three global internet users is a child, yet there has been little rigorous debate or understanding of how to adapt traditional, offline ethical standards for research involving data collection from children, to a big data, online environment (Livingstone et al., 2015). This paper argues that due to the potential for severe, long-lasting and differential impacts on children, child rights need to be firmly integrated onto the agendas of global debates about ethics and data science. The authors outline their rationale for a greater focus on child rights and ethics in data science and suggest steps to move forward, focusing on the various actors within the data chain including data generators, collectors, analysts and end-users. It concludes by calling for a much stronger appreciation of the links between child rights, ethics and data science disciplines and for enhanced discourse between stakeholders in the data chain, and those responsible for upholding the rights of children, globally. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 37 | Thematic area: Ethical research | Tags: children, data collection, data processing programmes, data protection, ethics, internet, research × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Gabrielle Berman; Kerry Albright 2017 Children and the Data Cycle:Rights and Ethics in a Big Data World. , pp. 37.