Bond, Emma and Phippen, Andy (2024) Report on the third meeting of high-level working group for privacy and safety. Project Report. ..

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Abstract

The ‘High-Level Working Group for Privacy & Safety’ aims to advocate for a holistic, person centred approach to online safeguarding that respects people’s rights to online participation and to their privacy.
Convened by Prof Andy Phippen and Prof Emma Bond, the Working Group intends to drive discussions where central concepts such as harm, risk, vulnerability, well-being, and the best interest of the child are addressed in a nuanced and contextual manner to move conversations on from the traditional prohibitive narratives that beset the online harms work. In convening this group, Andy Phippen and Emma Bond, who collectively have 40 years’ experience working in this area, are hoping to develop a more inclusive and progressive narrative that moves from “someone needs to stop this” to “what can we all do to make online experiences more inclusive while understanding and reducing harm”.
Current political narratives generally centre around how platforms can reduce or eliminate harms, with little consideration

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