A submission by Action on Rights for Children will call for more awareness of a "constitutional shift in power" from the individual to the Government in terms of data collection and surveillance measures, and its impact on young people's rights to privacy and consent.
Terri Dowty, its director, said: "There are so many piecemeal changes in children and adults' services that people aren't considering the full implications of the shift in power."
The inquiry, which ends on 8 June, is led by Lord Holme of Cheltenham and calls for an examination of the effects of public and private sector surveillance on individual liberty and a clearer line between individual privacy and public interest.
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