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Children’S Online Privacy: An Overview Of How Young People Use Social Media And How Lawmakers Seek To Better Protect And Empower Families Online, Zackary Blanton, Mark Gnatowski, Madison Jenkins, Rachel Kagan, Anabelle Roy, Libby Shaw, Bri Wendol, Monica Wilson-Reid Apr 2022

Children’S Online Privacy: An Overview Of How Young People Use Social Media And How Lawmakers Seek To Better Protect And Empower Families Online, Zackary Blanton, Mark Gnatowski, Madison Jenkins, Rachel Kagan, Anabelle Roy, Libby Shaw, Bri Wendol, Monica Wilson-Reid

Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic

The goal of this white paper is to provide an overview of current and pending children’s online privacy legislation and a summary of online social media platforms commonly used by children and teens.


Book Review: Parental Guidance, State Responsibility And Evolving Capacities: Article 5 Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Nancy Dowd Jan 2022

Book Review: Parental Guidance, State Responsibility And Evolving Capacities: Article 5 Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Nancy Dowd

UF Law Faculty Publications

The latest book from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Implementation Project focuses on Article 5 of the convention, which provides: States Parties shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents or, where applicable, the members of the extended family or community as provided for by local custom, legal guardians or other persons legally responsible for the child, to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the present Convention.


Adopting Social Media In Family And Adoption Law, Stacey B. Steinberg, Meredith Burgess, Karla Herrera Jan 2022

Adopting Social Media In Family And Adoption Law, Stacey B. Steinberg, Meredith Burgess, Karla Herrera

UF Law Faculty Publications

Social media has dramatically changed the landscape facing families brought together through adoption. Just as adoptive families thirty years ago could not have predicted the impact of DNA technology on post-adoption family life, adoptive families are only now beginning to grasp the impact of social media connectivity on the lives of their growing children. This change is both related to social media’s impact on family life and fundamental shifts in our understandings about privacy more generally. Understanding the legal rights of parents and children in these circumstances is both a novel and underexplored issue for family law, constitutional law, and …