Child Protection and Safeguarding Technologies

<p>This book explores through a children’s 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>This book is aimed at legal practitioners law students and those interested in child safeguarding and technology. </p>