Children's personal data

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"Russian companies are still swimming in this law, despite the fact that fines for illegal data processing will increase to 50 thousand rubles and to 300 thousand rubles for special category personal data. Despite the rather strict requirements for storage and processing in terms of technical protection, the other requirements are quite feasible. I believe this law is necessary, otherwise we will return to the 2000s, when any database could be bought in a passageway."

The issue of children's personal data has been discussed since the beginning of the century. At the end of the last century, Internet use in Northern Europe exceeded 50%, in Western Europe it exceeded 20%, so that the most active part of society, including media professionals, had the feeling that everything was already on the Internet.
In all families where there is Internet, children easily use it, starting from the age of three. list of cambodia cell phone numbers At the same time, children trust adults too much, not caring that they are collecting digital dossiers on them for their commercial or other purposes. Serious attention was drawn to the problem by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, who wrote a book in 2007 called “Children of the Digital Age”, where they noted that the virtual ID of a teenager is formed by search engines and social networks, and engineers and businessmen work to transfer and sell it to stores and back (today this is called “big data”).

At the moment, there are no special provisions in European law that regulate the processing and storage of children's data. In 2018, a number of measures will be adopted that will oblige data aggregators such as Facebook and Snapchat to request permission to process the data of a child under 16 (in some countries, up to 13 years old). In the United States, there is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which obliges children's websites and applications to request permission from parents under 13 years of age upon registration.

In Russia, the storage of children's personal data (PD) is regulated by the same laws as the processing of adults' PD - Federal Law No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data", No. 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information", No. 124-FZ (as amended on
28.11.2015) "On the Basic Guarantees of the Rights of the Child in the Russian
Federation", as well as a number of other federal laws.