The AEPD publishes an analysis on the protection of children and adolescents in the digital environment

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has published ‘A safe Internet by default for children and the role of age verification’, in which it analyses how children and adolescents can be protected on the Internet without this entailing surveillance and invasion of the privacy of all users, and without exposing children to be located and exposed to new risks. This analysis focuses on the obligation to comply with the data protection principles contained in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), along with other regulations that complement or deepen the protection of minors.

The document shows different strategies for the protection of children and adolescents (NNA) on the Internet, defining different cases of uses: protection from inappropriate content, safe environments for children, consent to the processing of personal data and child-friendly design. Each use case analysed is subject to different regulatory frameworks and, as a common framework, to the GDPR in terms of processing personal data. 

View the information published on the website of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD)