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2022 - Volume 5 - Number 1

Legal Issues of Children’s Personal Data Protection

Daria Smyr * dasha.smyr@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-7856-7328
Belarussian State University, Law Faculty, Minsk, REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

Ekaterina Ulianova * kate.ulianova@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-7138-1590
Belarussian State University, Law Faculty, Minsk, REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

Open Journal for Legal Studies, 2022, 5(1), 1-10 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojls.0501.01001s
Received: 14 March 2022 ▪ Revised: 28 May 2022 ▪ Accepted: 15 June 2022

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

ARTICLE (Full Text - PDF)

ABSTRACT:
The article deals with the problems of protecting the information privacy of minors in the online gaming sector. The authors analyze core approaches and methods of collection and processing of minors’ personal data, special regulation of data processing of children’s audience in light of some private company’s experience, current liability practices, and also offers a set of legislative measures to improve the effectiveness of children’s data protection both at the international and national level, measures for implementation of data subject rights.

KEY WORDS: personal data protection, minors, gaming industry, consent to processing, minimization.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Daria Smyr, Belarussian State University, Law Faculty, Minsk, REPUBLIC OF BELARUS. E-mail: dasha.smyr@gmail.com.

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