RightsCon Toronto 2018

This is chance to talk about practical steps that companies and public authorities can take to protect and empower children online. Companies and Data Protection Authorities will share how they consider risks to children's privacy online while still providing children with full, open and enriching online experiences. Civil society organizations will highlight the work that remains to be done, and academic researchers will ground this in evidence about how children exercise their rights to privacy and freedom of expression online.

Last year, we began a dialog on children's rights to privacy and freedom of expression at RightsCon. The GDPR will soon bring many changes, and UNICEF has recently published a Toolkit on Children's Online Privacy and Freedom of Expression to bring these issues to a global scale. This session will be an opportunity to highlight progress and pitfalls at a critical time, and create an open and transparent conversation about the challenges we all face in balancing children's rights in a digital world.