Workshop: “Child Safety on the Web” #505
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Just to add that this has quite a bit of overlap when considering safety on the web for people with disabilities. In particular where they have care support or care workers who assist them in online dealings. |
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This is a topic that the Publishing industry has a big interest in, particularly on the retailer/reading platforms side. Over the years we've explored a variety of ways to figure out how to organize and filter content for specific audiences. It might be worth looking at some of Publishing's metadata standards for how Publishers/Authors can identify their content:
On the retail side, many have tooling or checks in place to flag adult content if it is not already identified through metadata as being for adults. There is some challenge in establishing and managing these checks and rules because laws differ around the world on what ages content can be shown to, what content is considered inappropriate, and how to differentiate content. A classic example is "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov in comparison to "50 Shades of Grey" by E.L. James and what audiences those books can be shown to. |
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An analysis/options from European Parliament. |
Describe the web problem you think needs solving
Governments around the world increasingly look for methods to protect the safety of children as they participate online, and recently have been passing mandates for sites to identify or verify the age of visitors to alter functionality or exclude them from content. Those mandates often introduce risks to privacy and free expression, including surveillance of everyone's reading and writing online, breaches of sensitive data, preventing children from accessing important information, or blocking/taking down websites altogether. It would be helpful to find ways to support parents and children as they navigate access to appropriate Web content, without increasing privacy risk or impeding free expression.
Describe some use cases and requirements in detail
Workshop is an opportunity to:
Possible topics:
Potential outcomes:
There may need to be some preparatory work done to survey existing options to lay the groundwork for a productive workshop.
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Above material excerpted from email thread, much thanks and all credit to contributors, cc-ed here for further discussion: @npdoty, @mnot, @martinthomson, @sandandsnow, @bvandersloot-mozilla
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