Australia is tightening the rules on children’s privacy – here’s how it will work
The article discusses Australia's proposed Children’s Online Privacy Code, outlining measures to protect children's data online. It highlights provisions like data minimization, the right to delete personal data, and age-appropriate explanations, while acknowledging potential pushback from tech companies and the need for parental digital literacy.
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“Australia’s privacy laws have been woefully out of date for a long time – not fit to address the realities of the digital world.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to support or refute the claim about Australia's privacy laws being outdated.
“The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act in 2024 directed the OAIC to develop a code to better protect the privacy of young Australians in the digital world.”
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Wikipedia evidence references U.S. COPPA and general privacy laws, but no Australian 2024 amendment or OAIC code development is mentioned in the provided sources.
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— The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) is a United States federal law. The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot…
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— Information privacy, data privacy or data protection laws provide a legal framework on how to obtain, use and store data of natural persons. The various laws around the world describe the rights of na…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law
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— A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data, while a privacy not…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
“By the time a child turns 13, around 72 million pieces of data will have been collected about them.”
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Wikipedia evidence contains unrelated entries about childhood nudity, historical legends, and fertility records, with no data collection statistics relevant to the claim.
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— In contemporary societies, the appropriateness of childhood nudity in various situations is controversial, with many differences in behavior worldwide. Depending upon conceptions of childhood innocenc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_nudity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_nudity
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— The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps du…
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— This is a list of mothers said to have given birth to 20 or more children and men said to have fathered more than 25 children.
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“The OAIC published a draft of the Children’s Online Privacy Code, which is now open for public comment.”
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Wikipedia evidence discusses Meta Platforms, privacy law definitions, and privacy policies, but no specific OAIC draft code or public comment process is referenced.
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— Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms a…
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— Privacy law is a broad category of statutes, constitutional principles, and common law precedents related to an individual's right to privacy and reasonable expectation of privacy. While the Universal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_law
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— A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data, while a privacy not…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
“The code’s scope is much wider than just social media. It encompasses most online services, spaces and platforms that children use.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to confirm the scope of the Children's Online Privacy Code.
“Everything from educational platforms to infant tracking apps will be subject to the code.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to support inclusion of educational platforms or infant tracking apps in the code.
“Data minimisation specifies children’s personal data can only be collected where there’s a clear and direct purpose for that collection.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to confirm data minimisation requirements for children's data collection.
“Any further data collection requires explicit consent requested in a way that’s age-appropriate for the child.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to support age-appropriate explicit consent requirements for data collection.
“Children will now have a clear and explicit right to request that data is deleted.”
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“When children consent to having their geographic location tracked... children will be notified when tracking services are sharing that information.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to support notification requirements for location tracking data sharing.
“The code specifies the explanation for data consent requests must be understandable and age-appropriate for children.”
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“Deceptive design elements that might trick children into sharing personal data are explicitly not allowed.”
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“For children under 15, the code relies on parental consent. That consent is visible to children.”
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“The OAIC launched a Privacy for Kids website offering age-appropriate explanations of the code.”
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“The consultation is open until June 5 this year. The final version of the code must go live by December 10 2026.”
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