CPDP.ai 2025: Delivering on children’s rights, an opportunity for all?
We are delighted to invite you to our panel at the CPDP.ai 2025: The World is Watching. Moderated by our Chief Executive, Leanda Barrington-Leach, we’ll host four leading experts to unpick whether the EU can show a way forward for us all in the pursuit of children’s rights in the digital environment.
Children are a priority in EU digital policy for 2024-2029. Beyond fake dichotomies between protection and privacy, a focus on children’s rights in the digital environment could drive institutions and tech companies to ensure better online experiences for minors – and everyone else. From fixing recommender systems and edtech, to reining in advertising, detrimental data practices and addictive design features, there is growing awareness that children must be protected against risks and harms of the digital environment, as well as empowered to learn, play and participate. Robust protection of children’s data under GDPR, ambitious implementation of the DSA, and reform of consumers law to redress digital asymmetries and tackle vulnerabilities with a Digital Fairness Act can show that regulating and innovating for a better internet is possible. Fixing children’s online experiences, the EU may show a way forward for all.
Questions to be answered
- How can the recognised vulnerability and additional rights of children deliver an ambitious and radical Digital Fairness Act?
- How can we get age-verification right, to protect everyone’s privacy and empower children?
- What lessons can tech companies draw from safety-by-design, age-appropriate design and child rights by design approaches?
- How can we translate human and children’s rights into practical design and development requirements for digital products and services?
Key information:
- Date: 22th May 2025
- Time: 10:30 to 11:45 (CEST)
- Location: Brussels/Online
- More info: Event page
Speakers include:
- Leanda Barrington-Leach, Chief Executive of 5Rights Foundation (Moderator).
- Linn Høgåsen, Digital Policy Officer at the Forbrukerrådet/Norwegian Consumer Council.
- Felix Mikolasch, Chair of noyb.eu.
- Professor Ali Hessami, VC & Process Architect, IEEE Ethics Certification Programme for Autonomous & Intelligent Systems, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
- Ioannis Koutsoumpinas, Legal Adviser to the Minister of Digital Governance, Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance.