The report, written by director of Arch Terri Dowty, and with a comparative overview of the law in other European countries by Douwe Korff, aims to give an indication of current legal thinking on children's ability to give informed consent to information sharing in a way that will make the subject readily understandable to non-lawyers.
Dowty says: "It has long been the case that agencies can share information without consent about children whom they believe to be at risk of significant harm. What is relatively new is the question of whether children can consent to having sensitive data that they reveal to one person stored on a database and shared with others. The reason that this issue has come to the fore is that developments in information technology have made it possible to store large quantities of personal information about every child in easily accessible and potentially permanent records, and to share those records rapidly with other people."
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