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When is children’s data vulnerable and what devices (smart toys, video games, phones, laptops) are prone to the collection of children’s personal information? Who can access this data and what can it be used for? What does data privacy mean to children across ages and developmental stages?

Children and Screens’ Research-at-a-Glance on “Data Privacy and Children” provides a quick, printable, and accessible resource with current and quality research on children’s data privacy.

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Burgess, M. (2021, April 5). All the data Google’s apps collect about you and how to stop it. Wired UK. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-app-gmail-chrome-data

Children’s data and privacy online: Growing up in a digital age. (n.d.). London School of Economics and Political Science. https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/research/research-projects/childprivacyonline

Fang, L. (2020, June 24). FBI expands ability to monitor social media, location data. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2020/06/24/fbi-surveillance-social-media-cellphone-dataminr-venntel/

Foust , J., & Jerome, J. (2021, June 25). A guide to reining in data-driven video game design. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/a-guide-to-reining-in-data-driven-video-game-design-privacy/

Hecht-Felella, L. (2021, April 16). Federal agencies are secretly buying consumer data. Brennan Center for Justice. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/federal-agencies-are-secretly-buying-consumer-data 

Henderson, S. E., & American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee. (2013). ABA standards for criminal justice: Law enforcement access to third party records. In ABA standards for criminal justice (3rd ed.). American Bar Association. Retrieved from https://ssrn.com/abstract=2289493

Kearsley-Ho, J. (2021, September 27). How do video games collect and use data? ESports Lawyers. https://esportslawyers.ca/how-do-video-games-collect-and-use-data

Kift, P., & Nissenbaum, H. (2016). Metadata in context – An ontological and normative analysis of the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata collection program. ISJLP , 13(2). https://ssrn.com/abstract=2800159

Livingstone, S., Stoilova, M., & Nandagiri, R. (2019). Children’s data and privacy online: Growing up in a digital age. An evidence review. London School of Economics and Political Science.

McCourt, A. (2019, April 3). Social media mining: The effects of big data in the age of social media. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/social-media-mining-effects-big-data-age-social-media

Nagata, J. M., Singh, G., Sajjad, O. M., Ganson, K. T., Testa, A., Jackson, D. B., Assari, S., Murray, S. B., Bibbins-Domingo, K., & Baker, F. C. (2022). Social epidemiology of early adolescent problematic screen use in the United States. Pediatric Research, 92, 1443–1449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-02176-8

National Center for Education Statistics. (2021, March). Digest of education statistics: 2021. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_702.60.asp

National Center for Education Statistics. (2022). Condition of education: Children’s internet access at home. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cch

Parents’ social media habits: 2021. (2021, May 13). Security.org. https://www.security.org/digital-safety/parenting-social-media-report

Quayyum, F., Cruzes, D. S., & Jaccheri, L. (2021). Cybersecurity awareness for children: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 30, 100343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100343

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