Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (Dec 2023)
On the Protection of Children’s Online Privacy from the Phenomenon of Sharenting
Abstract
With the rise of social networks, parents are increasingly showing off their children, which is called Sharenting. On the one hand, parents lack awareness of prevention; on the other hand, Sharenting has become the currency of interpersonal transactions, and parents have a serious mentality of following the herd. In this context, children’s rights are ignored and their voices are not listened to. This study takes the phenomenon of Sharenting as an entry point to discover the current difficulties in technical, social self-awareness, and legal to protect in children’s right to online privacy. This paper combines the United Nations’ protective measure of children’s rights with national practices to explore multiple paths to improving the protection of children’s online privacy. In this way, the legitimate rights of children can be safeguarded form families and schools, internet industry self-regulation, legal policy, and government propaganda, and it can also prevent illegal infringement caused by privacy leak.
