I am looking forward to speaking today at Interactive Ontario’s INplay 2010 conference. My panel will be this afternoon: “Kids & Privacy: What Are You Doing With My Stuff?“
* Jennifer Lord, Producer of Online Communities, Corus Entertainment – Moderator
* Arni Stinnissen, Toddington International
* Jeanette Lee, Lawyer, Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP
* Marie Morency-Lee, Manager, TVO
“How have recent developments in technology changed how we deal with privacy? What are the new considerations? What about mobile? How do kids engage in social networks? How do we make them safe? What constitutes safety (and risk)? Who is doing it right and who is doing it wrong?”
INplay 2010
This should be a great discussion. Arni Stinnissen will start the session with a brief talk about kids online, privacy and security issues. He is a former Detective Staff Sergeant the Ontario Provincial Police, and Manager of the OPP’s Electronic Crime Section, now an educator, speaker and trainer with Toddington International. There will be much to discuss, in terms of how adults and kids use current technology, technology here and yet to come, law, self-regulation and policy, and the risks and competing interests of those who share information in the interactive media space, and others that wish to use that information for other purposes, commercial or otherwise. It will be interesting to see where the discussion leads, looking at multiple perspectives: security, media, interactive, marketing, legal – and users. I anticipate discussion around the benefits and failures of self-regulation versus legislation, to address privacy concerns.
Kids & privacy is a timely subject, since in the last few months online privacy has been front and centre in news and policy, in Canada and the U.S. To name a few examples: new proposed U.S. bills, COPPA review, privacy roundtables, white papers, Google (pick your service), and – Facebook. Of course, the power of Facebook to reach many has already been in discussion at INplay. Facebook and privacy will continue to be a hot topic, particularly given the most recent reports of alleged internal debates about (more) proposed changes to Facebook privacy settings. Some reports say the changes to further “simplfy” the settings may be implemented within weeks.
Hope to see some of you at INplay today!
