Open AccessChildren right to data protection: challenges in digital world
Author(s) -
Gabrielė Velta Mickevičiūtė,
Vytautas Pasvenskas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vilnius university open series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2669-0535
DOI - 10.15388/os.tmp.2020.3
Subject(s) - general data protection regulation , data protection act 1998 , the internet , european union , context (archaeology) , internet privacy , child protection , right to be forgotten , political science , psychology , computer science , business , law , international trade , world wide web , geography , archaeology
This article analyses child data protection on the Internet and in the context of modern technology. Article discusses Problems of legal regulation in Lithuania and other European Union countries. The protection of children’s data faces the following challenges: 1) how and what form the consent, which is obligatory under the GDPR, of the child to the processing of his or her data should be provided; 2) the issue of parents’ virtual consent to process their child’s data; 3) processing of the child’s data on the Internet; 4) problematic aspects of facial recognition technologies, examples.