Resources
Explore our curated resources and find valuable publications, tools and positions on children’s rights in the digital environment.
Children’s Online Privacy Code – Australia
The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (the Act) introduced a mandate for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) to develop a Children’s Online Privacy Code (the Code), which will put children at the centre of privacy protections in Australia.
Building a digital environment designed with children in mind: An international best practices blueprint
This report sets out a practical international blueprint to help policymakers address harmful design and business models, strengthen accountability, and ensure technology is safe and age-appropriate by design and default.
Age Assurance as a spectrum: A risk-based approach from a European perspective
5Rights’ Age Assurance as a Spectrum report sets out how age assurance can support a safe-by-design, children’s rights approach – not as a tool for exclusion, but as a means of enabling age-appropriate services, safer defaults and proportionate protections.
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.
Children & AI Design Code
The rapid rise of AI cannot be left unchecked. That is why we’ve created an actionable and practical framework to embed children’s rights and needs across the lifecycle of AI systems.
Advancing Trust & Safety: systems and standards for online safety professionals
“Advancing Trust & Safety” explores the evolution of T&S into a global profession, highlighting systemic barriers and proposing solutions to empower professionals and improve digital safety.
Conscious Advertising Network: Child Rights Manifesto
The Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Manifesto developed by 5Rights and the Conscious Advertising Network details how brands can make child safety a brand priority, rather than a function within a business department.
IEEE 2089.1-2024 – IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification
Framework for the design, specification, evaluation, and deployment of online age verification systems are established in this standard. This standard is the second in a family of standards focused on the 5Rights principles.
CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement 18016
Tech companies are now required to design services safe for children, following new guidance by EU standardisation body, CEN-CENELEC. This new standard is a key step toward standardised age-appropriate design under the DSA.