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UK children’s digital privacy code comes into effect

UK children’s digital privacy code comes into effect

UK children’s digital privacy code comes into effect
02 September 2021

A sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat children’s data have been welcomed by campaigners as they come into effect.

The Age Appropriate Design Code – which was written into law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, which also implemented GDPR in the UK – mandates websites and apps from Thursday to take the “best interests” of their child users into account, or face fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover.

 

There is a clear summary of the code here

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