{"id":2697,"date":"2021-09-02T05:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T05:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T03:40:04","slug":"uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"UK children\u2019s digital privacy code comes into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take \u2018best interests\u2019 of child users into account<\/p>\n<p>A sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat children\u2019s data have been welcomed by campaigners<strong> <\/strong>as they come into effect.<\/p>\n<p>The Age Appropriate Design Code \u2013 which was written into law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, which also implemented GDPR in the UK \u2013 mandates websites and apps from Thursday to take the \u201cbest interests\u201d of their child users into account, or face fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/02\/uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d02babc6dfa6b73d44c156665537b94dd8f1186\/0_182_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b8aef3127293b7f5ab32e96b9dd99a9\" title=\"UK children\u2019s digital privacy code comes into effect\" \/>Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take \u2018best interests\u2019 of child users into account<br \/>\nA sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat children\u2019s data have been welcomed by campaigners as they come into effect.<br \/>\nThe Age Appropriate Design Code \u2013 which was written into law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, which also implemented GDPR in the UK \u2013 mandates websites and apps from Thursday to take the \u201cbest interests\u201d of their child users into account, or face fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take \u2018best interests\u2019 of child users into account A sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat children\u2019s data have been welcomed by campaigners as they come into effect. The Age Appropriate Design Code \u2013 which was written into law as part of the 2018 Data &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK children\u2019s digital privacy code comes into effect<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}