Resources
Explore our curated resources and find valuable publications, tools and positions on children’s rights in the digital environment.
Access restrictions to protect children and their rights in the digital environment
5Rights Foundation welcomes the will of the EU and its Member States to take further and robust action to protect children from unsafe and exploitative practices by technology providers and ensure children’s rights are fully respected and upheld in the digital age.
Case Study – Is Instagram now safe for teens?
This case study examines Instagram Teen Accounts to assess whether new safety features protect teens from risks like harmful content, hidden ads, and poor age assurance practices.
Preliminary findings on ‘Walkie Talkie – All talk’ safety concerns for minors
5Rights preliminary findings show major safety concerns with the Walkie Talkie – All Talk app that could be putting children in danger.
Impact of regulation on children’s digital lives
New research reveals how laws across the world are driving positive changes in tech platforms to protect children online. Learn about the impact of regulations on children’s digital lives.
Just One Click – How digital design puts children at risk and how we can fix it
In 2021 5Rights published Pathways – a study looking at how the design choices of
digital products and services impact the lives of children. Using avatars – online profiles based on real children – this study found that design features enable automated pathways which can lead children to graphic images of self-harm, extreme diets, pornography, extremist content and introductions to adult strangers.
One year on, we worked with expert behavioural researchers at Revealing Reality to repeat parts of the experiment to see if anything has changed for children online.
The Facebook Files by The Wall Street Journal
Research on the Facebook flaws that promote significant online harm. The analysis of their internal documents proves they are very aware but haven’t acted.
Pathways: How digital design puts children at risk
5Rights new research shows online accounts registered to children are being targeted with sexual and suicide content.
TikTok’s Secretive Algorithm Unpacked by The Wall Street Journal
Through monitoring over 100 automated TikTok accounts, the Journal has exposed the harmful algorithm-led rabbit holes that users are pushed into.