Children's rights to privacy and data protection in the online environment

• Author: Ramona Duminica, Andra Nicoleta Puran
• Pages: 155-168

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Children’s rights to privacy

and data protection in the online environment

Ramona Duminic, Andra Nicoleta Puran

University of Pitesti, Romania

1. INTRODUCTION

It is a reality that nowadays we live in digitalized societies, by using the

electronic communication systems based on internet not just for entertainment,

interpersonal communication, but also for work and education. In the context of

the COVID-19 pandemic, in all developed states and not only, most of activities

are online. People are constantly connected to the internet, especially through

smartphones or tablets where multiple applications are installed. The use of these

apps requires access to data stored on users’ devices. Directly or indirectly, these

data lead to personal identification and are qualified as personal data1.

As early as 1965, I. J. Good questioned the effects that may result from the

development of artificial intelligence. He pointed out that: the invention of an

ultra-intelligent machine will be the last thing man has to do, provided it is docile

enough to show us how to keep it under control2.

1 SPYROS E. POLYKALAS: Assessing General Data Protection Regulation for Personal

Data Privacy: is the End of “Take it or Leave it” Approach for Downloading Apps?, in Proceedings of

The Seventh International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics

(SOTICS), 2017, Athens, Greece, p. 11.

2 I. J. GOOD: The Estimation of Probabilities: An Essay on Modern Bayesian Methods, 1965

apud Vlad BERCU, in Inteligena artificial – un pericol pentru protecia datelor sau un instrument