Age-Appropriate Design Code – call for evidence by the ICO

5Rights report: ‘Digital Childhood: Addressing Childhood Development Milestones in the Digital Environment’

As of May 25th 2018 the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA2018) has taken effect in the UK, supporting and supplementing the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

An important requirement in the DPA2018, going beyond the GDPR, is the inclusion of an Age Appropriate Design Code (section 123 of DPA2018) to provide guidance on the design standards that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will expect providers of online ‘Information Society Services’ (ISS), which are likely to be accessed by children, to meet.

The ICO is responsible for drafting the Code and has issued a call for evidence is the first stage of the consultation process.

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WHAT KIND OF INTERNET DO CHIDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WANT? OPPORTUNITIES, RISKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

I was very pleased to present UnBias’ data at two great recent UK events that addressed children’s safety and wellbeing and children’s rights at: the NSPCC annual conference, ‘How safe are our Children? Growing up online’, 20th-21st June, in London and at the launch of the ‘Children, Rights and Childhood’ event, on 22nd June in Birmingham.

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On 16th April the House of Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence published a report called ‘AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?”. The report is based on an inquiry by the House of Lords conducted to consider the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence. UnBias team member Ansgar Koene submitted written evidence based on the combined work of the UnBias investigations and our involvement with the development of the IEEE P7003 Standard for Algorithmic Bias Considerations.

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Emancipating Users Against Algorithmic Biases for a Trusted Digital Economy