Canada
5Rights works at the provincial and federal level in Canada to ensure protections for children’s privacy, safety, and rights.
Overview
Canada is taking important steps to adopt stronger safeguards and ensure respect for children’s rights at the federal and provincial levels. 5Rights supports these efforts by working directly with federal and provincial authorities, leading coordinated civil society efforts, and collaborating with academia.
Children’s experiences
Among the 50 websites most popular with children in Canada, 96% employ an average of five trackers to continually collect data and only 12% set privacy settings to private by default.
Children in Canada do not accept this reality. 83% of children surveyed indicated that companies operating social media sites where children post content should not be able to see their content, even though they knew companies could.
Our work in Canada
In Canada, where 7 in 10 Canadians support stronger regulation of digital products and services, 5Rights works to ensure federal and provincial legislation reflects the broad consensus that children must have distinct protections. We engage with legislators, regulators, and civil society to hold tech companies accountable to integrate children’s privacy, safety, and rights by design and default.
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Canada at a Crossroads: Protecting Children in the Age of AI
As Canada redefines its approach to artificial intelligence and technology governance, recent developments highlight that safeguarding children and their rights should be fundamental to the country’s digital future.
Joint Input to Canada’s AI Strategy
Building on our Joint submission to the Canadian Children’s Privacy Code, 5Rights led a coordinated response of 20 leading civil society organisations and individual experts calling for a national approach to AI governance that embeds children’s safety, privacy, and rights from the outset.
Joint submission to the Canadian Children’s Privacy Code
Over 40 leading Canadian experts and organisations have come together to call for comprehensive protections in the Children’s Privacy Code, addressing the growing concern over the commercialisation of children’s data.
Canada’s regulator announces new children’s privacy code, now lawmakers must follow
Following years of engagement with 5Rights, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner just announced a children’s privacy code. Now, the newly elected Government must make the protection of children’s rights and privacy online a national priority.