Children’s Data Privacy in the Digital Age

Explore how children’s data is collected and used in today’s digital environment and how governments attempt to regulate it through privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR. Through an analysis of current policy approaches, I examine how data tracking, consent mechanisms, and platform design shape what protection actually looks like in practice. It highlights the challenge of safeguarding children online when technology evolves faster than regulation and when understanding of consent is often limited.