Calls for kids' data protection in Aust

guest · Jun 14, 2018

Calls for kids' data protection in Aust
An expert on privacy protection for kids believes Australia will soon need to follow countries in prohibiting companies from tracking children online.
June 14, 2018
https://www.news.com.au/national/br...t/news-story/c2df93690e1f4725c789dd1b7b26b3a6

Australia will inevitably need to follow other countries legislating against the collection of data about children from the internet, a data privacy protection expert warns.
"Pretty much everything is based around capturing personal data and monetising it in some form," the Irish entrepreneur told AAP on Thursday.

In recent years, the US, Europe and China have created so-called "zero-data environments" which prohibit companies from collecting data on people under a set age - ranging between 13 and 16.

Mr Collins estimates before a child reaches the age of 13, there are "tens of millions" of pieces of information about them that have been collected and could be used to build a profile.
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