Coram Children's Legal Centre has this month re-launched LawStuff, a website for young people to get information about their rights. The website offers a broad range of information for children and young people. It is important that young people are aware of their rights, and know what they can do or are entitled to as they grow up. The relaunched website includes information about children and young people's rights in the digital world, just as the children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, reported that young people are ill-equipped to navigate their rights online.
The children's commissioner reported on 5 January that children find themselves in an online world that is not designed for them. There they access social media and create profiles on a wide range of social websites and apps, but frequently do not understand the legal requirements for registering their information on websites, and routinely give away personal information. Children give away the digital rights to their work, pictures and public posts on social media without understanding the terms and conditions that they are required to consent to in order to have an account. Terms and conditions are often long and written in opaque legal language which obscures what children and young people are asked to agree to, including their data being shared with third parties.
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