While the Internet can bring considerable benefits to children's education and development, it also exposes them to online risks such as access to inappropriate content, abusive interaction with others, exposure to aggressive marketing practices and privacy risks. The OECD has undertaken considerable work on the protection of children as users of the Internet.
OECD Recommendation on the Protection of Children Online
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Current work through 2021
We highlight work to update the Recommendation and consider some of the policy and legislative avenues countries take to protect children online and promote positive online use in a chapter of the publication Educating 21st Century Children: Emotional Well-being in the Digital Age (October 2019). A February 2020 policy note on growing up online also looks at how policies should address the needs of children in today's digital world.
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