Privacy matters when enabling a safer online experience for children
By Kruakae Pothong & Sonia Livingstone Children’s life these days are almost digital by default. With moves towards the metaverse, the digital and physical worlds »
The Digital Futures Commission has now concluded. Our new project is the Digital Futures for Children centre, joint with 5Rights Foundation and London School of Economics and Political Science.
Follow how our research has unfolded from 2020 to 2023 and gain an snapshot of our findings across the play, data and innovation research streams.
By Kruakae Pothong & Sonia Livingstone Children’s life these days are almost digital by default. With moves towards the metaverse, the digital and physical worlds »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong Whether tiny start-ups or global players make digital products used by children, there’s a minefield of standards and regulations »
By Emma Day, Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone and Ayça Atabey In a new open-access journal article, we examine the governance of data processed from children »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong The year 2022 has been an eventful year for the DFC! As the year is coming to an end, »
The Digital Futures Commission launched its essay collection entitled Education Data Futures: Critical, Regulatory and Practical Reflections on the 21st of November 2022. This essay »
By Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone The Digital Futures Commission has identified many wrongs with data collection and processing in educational settings in its 2022 »
By Sonia Livingstone, Kruakae Pothong and Ayça Atabey In the UK government’s recently published policy paper, ‘Establishing a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI’, the government »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong What do UK children think of the EdTech products they use at school? Have they been informed about the »
By Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone Just before the summer break, the Digital Futures Commission went to schools! We wished to consult children about how »
by Ayça Atabey How can children’s expectations be addressed through embedding ‘fairness’ and children’s best interests when designing value-sensitive and child-rights respecting digital technologies? What »
By Louise Hooper, Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone The Digital Futures Commission launched its report on Problems with Data Governance in UK Schools: the cases of »
New report published today by the Digital Futures Commission uncovers how digital classrooms – including Google Classroom and ClassDojo – are failing to comply with data protection regulation and leaving school children vulnerable to commercial exploitation as a consequence. These new findings come as the Danish government has banned schools from using Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education in their Helsingør Municipality. »
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