The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published three short guides for children on data protection and their rights under the GDPR. The purpose of these guides is to explain to children in language they can easily understand what data protection is and why it’s important, what their data protection rights are and how to use them, and to give children practical advice on how to keep their personal data safe in the digital environment. These guides are aimed mainly at children aged 13 and over, as this is the typical signup age for many forms of social media.
Data protection – what’s it all about?
This guide introduces children and young people to the idea of personal data and data protection, and why it’s important for them to know about it.
Each of these short guides introduces children to a different data protection right and how to use it. These guides can be read together or separately:
Top tips for keeping your data safe online
This guide has fifteen useful tips to help children – and indeed everyone – keep their personal data safe when they go online.
