Child Protection and Safeguarding Technologies: Appropriate or Excessive Solutions to Social Problems? [Hardcover]

This book explores, through a childrens rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities. The text argues that a safeguarding dystopia results in docile children, rather than safe ones, and that we should stop seeing technology as the sole solution to online safeguarding.

The reader will, through reading this book, gain a deeper understanding of the current policy arena in online safeguarding, what causes children to beocme upset online, and the doomed nature of safeguarding solutions. The book also features a detailed analysis of issues surrounding content filtering, access monitoring, surveillance, image recognition, and tracking.

This book is aimed at legal practitioners, law students, and those interested in child safeguarding and technology.

1. Doing More to Safeguarding Children Online;  2. The Role of Online Technology in Young Peoples Lives: Activities and Concerns;  3. Safeguarding Children by Prohibiting Access;  4. Further Progress in Technological Intervention: Knowing Everything, Always;  5. Algorithmic Approaches to Tackling Online Safeguarding;  6. Safety at the Expense of Liberty?

This book explores the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection. The text argues that a safeguarding dystopia results in docile children, rather than safe ones, and that we should stop seeing technology as the sole solution to online safeguarding.

 

Andy Phippen is a Professor of Social Responsibility in Information Technology at the University of Plymouth. He has specialised in the use of ICTs in social contexts for almost 20 years, carrying out a large amount of grassroots resel#$