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Question: RIGHT OF ONLINE INFORMATIONAL PRIVACY OF CHILDREN IN MALAYSIA: A STATUTORY PERSPECTIVE

Answer: Abstract: The advantage of digital era with unlimited access to the Internet
is enjoyed by most people globally including the young and children.
However, policy-makers concern with the advancement of Internet and
propagate the idea of shielding and segregating the children from the
harm that may cause from access to the Internet, including breach of
online privacy of the children. Children are not sensitive with their online
privacy or do not know how to protect their online privacy. Hence, some
countries have enacted specific legislation to protect the privacy of the
children such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
in the United States of America or introduced self-regulatory initiatives
on online child privacy like in the European Union. At the international
level, the Convention on the Rights of the Child was introduced in 1989
by the United Nation to protect the children. In Malaysia, the government
introduces the Child Act 2001 and the Sexual Offences against Children
Act 2017 to protect the children. However, how far these two Acts protect
the online privacy of the children in Malaysia? Thus, the article seeks
to examine the legal protection of children online informational privacy
in Malaysia. The article adopts doctrinal research methodology which
is mainly library research approach. The article finds that the current
regimes of laws do not adequately protect the online privacy of the
children in Malaysia. It is suggested that amendment or enactment of the
laws to that effect be made.

(Source: http://www.uumjls.uum.edu.my/images/vol9july2018/221-241.pdf, 06 Jul 2021)

Source Link: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak