Your Child's Data Privacy Rights: What Every Parent Should Know
Children generate enormous amounts of personal data online β from the apps they use to the videos they watch to their location. Multiple laws protect this data, but enforcement is inconsistent and many parents don't know their rights.
COPPA β US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
The EU's GDPR sets 16 as the default age for data consent (member states can lower this to 13). Children's data must be processed with higher standards, privacy notices must be written in age-appropriate language, and data must not be processed for commercial profiling.
GDPR and Children's Data in Europe
The UK's Children's Code (often called the Age Appropriate Design Code) sets 15 standards for services likely to be accessed by under-18s, including requiring high privacy settings by default, not using nudge techniques to encourage data sharing, and not profiling children for targeted advertising.
The UK Age Appropriate Design Code
Request a copy of all data held on your child. Exercise the right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"). Opt out of data sharing and targeted advertising in every app. Choose services with strong privacy credentials β look for COPPA certification and GDPR compliance statements.
What You Can Do
GuardianShield is COPPA certified and GDPR compliant. We collect only the minimum data necessary to provide the monitoring service, never sell data to third parties, and provide parents with full access, correction, and deletion rights for all data collected.
GuardianShield's Data Practices
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