PhD student: Mrs K. Schuurman

Promotor: Mrs Prof W.M. Schrama

Duration: 1/4/2024 - 31/3/2028

Abstract:

The digital landscape has become an integral part of childrens lives. There has been a call for a better protection of the childs (right to) privacy - as laid down in Article 16 of the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). A vast body of research on (the right to) privacy already exists. However, the position of children is hardly ever discussed in privacy literature. There is little insight into regarding the contents and the scope of the right to privacy (per Article 16 UNCRC), and how it must be interpreted in different contexts. Uncertainty regarding childrens right to privacy could result in a legal lacunae in ensuring the protection and empowerment of children and their rights in digital contexts. This dissertation takes a child-centric approach to privacy rights. Through legal-dogmatic research, it will be analysed how the childs right to privacy is to be understood and given shape, and considered what measures might be appropriate to ascertain the full appreciation of the right. Through individual articles, childrens right to privacy in different contexts will be elucidated and the relation of this privacy right to other childrens rights will be contemplated.