At last someone had the balls to map the Kidron & 5Rights standards capture pipeline for the age verification lobby: “The result is a surveillance infrastructure built under the banner of child protection, shaped by overlapping networks, and accountable to nobody.”
tboteproject.com/globalfindin...
tboteproject.com/globalfindin...
April 7, 2026 at 5:52 AM
At last someone had the balls to map the Kidron & 5Rights standards capture pipeline for the age verification lobby: “The result is a surveillance infrastructure built under the banner of child protection, shaped by overlapping networks, and accountable to nobody.”
tboteproject.com/globalfindin...
tboteproject.com/globalfindin...
Oh yeah, the UK is the source of a lot of these bills -- one of the main lobbyists is a UK baroness's pet nonprofit (5Rights)
March 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Oh yeah, the UK is the source of a lot of these bills -- one of the main lobbyists is a UK baroness's pet nonprofit (5Rights)
(We are *excellent* proof that every single one of these "children's data privacy" bills written by 5Rights are pretextual, because we have better data privacy practices than nearly anyone out there -- we don't even run advertising -- and they apply to us and force us to collect *more* data.)
October 5, 2023 at 12:50 PM
(We are *excellent* proof that every single one of these "children's data privacy" bills written by 5Rights are pretextual, because we have better data privacy practices than nearly anyone out there -- we don't even run advertising -- and they apply to us and force us to collect *more* data.)
It's not actually been introduced yet, but 5Rights is pulling out all the stops: marylandkidscode.com One of the sponsors had an editorial in the Banner: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/comm...
January 17, 2024 at 2:15 AM
It's not actually been introduced yet, but 5Rights is pulling out all the stops: marylandkidscode.com One of the sponsors had an editorial in the Banner: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/comm...
We've got one to add to the collection! 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/bri...
Briefing on the second reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill
This briefing for the House of Lords’ second reading of the Data Bill highlights 5Rights’ concerns over weakened child data protection provisions.
5rightsfoundation.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:17 PM
What if we stopped asking children to adapt to unsafe technology – and started asking technology to be safe for children?
That’s the thinking behind 5Rights #ChildhoodRedrawn campaign.
Read Leanda Barrington-Leach’s op-ed for Eurochild: eurochild.org/news/childho...
That’s the thinking behind 5Rights #ChildhoodRedrawn campaign.
Read Leanda Barrington-Leach’s op-ed for Eurochild: eurochild.org/news/childho...
September 28, 2026 at 8:55 AM
What if we stopped asking children to adapt to unsafe technology – and started asking technology to be safe for children?
That’s the thinking behind 5Rights #ChildhoodRedrawn campaign.
Read Leanda Barrington-Leach’s op-ed for Eurochild: eurochild.org/news/childho...
That’s the thinking behind 5Rights #ChildhoodRedrawn campaign.
Read Leanda Barrington-Leach’s op-ed for Eurochild: eurochild.org/news/childho...
What are digital inequalities? #EllenHellsper explains how digital policies around the world consider children during the #DFC research day
Hosted by Media@LSE & #5Rights
Hosted by Media@LSE & #5Rights
November 29, 2024 at 1:39 PM
What are digital inequalities? #EllenHellsper explains how digital policies around the world consider children during the #DFC research day
Hosted by Media@LSE & #5Rights
Hosted by Media@LSE & #5Rights
📢 5Rights Marie-Eve Nadeau is taking part in a webinar on policy & legislative trends in child online safety.
🗓️ Wed 16th July | 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Hosted by SafeOnline Fund @UNICEF @WHO
➡️ Full agenda + register: https://loom.ly/mjLujbI
#ChildRights
🗓️ Wed 16th July | 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Hosted by SafeOnline Fund @UNICEF @WHO
➡️ Full agenda + register: https://loom.ly/mjLujbI
#ChildRights
July 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📢 5Rights Marie-Eve Nadeau is taking part in a webinar on policy & legislative trends in child online safety.
🗓️ Wed 16th July | 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Hosted by SafeOnline Fund @UNICEF @WHO
➡️ Full agenda + register: https://loom.ly/mjLujbI
#ChildRights
🗓️ Wed 16th July | 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Hosted by SafeOnline Fund @UNICEF @WHO
➡️ Full agenda + register: https://loom.ly/mjLujbI
#ChildRights
For #WorldChildrensDay, we join the #UNCRC Committee, Child Rights Connect, 5Rights, Concerned for Working Children, Save the Children & Queen's University Belfast in the #RightsAware campaign to call for more child participation in decision-making. Stay tuned for daily videos 📣! #ChildRights
November 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM
For #WorldChildrensDay, we join the #UNCRC Committee, Child Rights Connect, 5Rights, Concerned for Working Children, Save the Children & Queen's University Belfast in the #RightsAware campaign to call for more child participation in decision-making. Stay tuned for daily videos 📣! #ChildRights
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For-profit corporations are monsters
They're not a natural man
Only about $s Roblox
be pro-predators seeking to harm children
Leaving your child to scream
If I were president of this land
you know I'd declare
total outlaw of the for-profit corporate man
🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasAgainstForProfitCorporations
For-profit corporations are monsters
They're not a natural man
Only about $s Roblox
be pro-predators seeking to harm children
Leaving your child to scream
If I were president of this land
you know I'd declare
total outlaw of the for-profit corporate man
🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasAgainstForProfitCorporations
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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For-profit corporations are monsters
They're not a natural man
Only about $s Roblox
be pro-predators seeking to harm children
Leaving your child to scream
If I were president of this land
you know I'd declare
total outlaw of the for-profit corporate man
🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasAgainstForProfitCorporations
For-profit corporations are monsters
They're not a natural man
Only about $s Roblox
be pro-predators seeking to harm children
Leaving your child to scream
If I were president of this land
you know I'd declare
total outlaw of the for-profit corporate man
🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasAgainstForProfitCorporations
Recall that this suit challenges the enforce-ability of the California Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC). This is the same law that came out of the UK AADC, penned by Baroness Kidron and 5Rights.
TLDR; Online age verification laws likely infringe the First Amendment.
TLDR; Online age verification laws likely infringe the First Amendment.
September 18, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Recall that this suit challenges the enforce-ability of the California Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC). This is the same law that came out of the UK AADC, penned by Baroness Kidron and 5Rights.
TLDR; Online age verification laws likely infringe the First Amendment.
TLDR; Online age verification laws likely infringe the First Amendment.
"The four largest platforms – Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat – have shifted away from protective ‘by default’ design changes and towards end-user tools such as parental controls."
In other words, more work for, let's be honest, mothers:
In other words, more work for, let's be honest, mothers:
Digital Futures for Children and 5Rights Foundation | Child online safety report
Regulation is making digital spaces safer for children, new research finds, but tech giant's responses still fall short without strong enforcement.
www.lse.ac.uk
May 20, 2026 at 2:36 AM
"The four largest platforms – Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat – have shifted away from protective ‘by default’ design changes and towards end-user tools such as parental controls."
In other words, more work for, let's be honest, mothers:
In other words, more work for, let's be honest, mothers:
The success that led 5Rights et al to complain in April: "the Illegal Harms Codes of Practice...was watered down from its draft proposals" & "Ofcom’s approach to date has been to standardise current practice which does not go far enough to keep children safe." 5rightsfoundation.com/wp-content/u...
5rightsfoundation.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The success that led 5Rights et al to complain in April: "the Illegal Harms Codes of Practice...was watered down from its draft proposals" & "Ofcom’s approach to date has been to standardise current practice which does not go far enough to keep children safe." 5rightsfoundation.com/wp-content/u...
🎉 Celebrating #WorldChildrensDay, 100 years Geneva Declaration & 35 years #UNCRC.
❇️ Highlight to explore:
👧 My rights online - toolkit for children and young people
➡️https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children/your-rights-online
By #DigitalFutures4Children @MediaLSE & 5Rights
❇️ Highlight to explore:
👧 My rights online - toolkit for children and young people
➡️https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children/your-rights-online
By #DigitalFutures4Children @MediaLSE & 5Rights
November 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
🎉 Celebrating #WorldChildrensDay, 100 years Geneva Declaration & 35 years #UNCRC.
❇️ Highlight to explore:
👧 My rights online - toolkit for children and young people
➡️https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children/your-rights-online
By #DigitalFutures4Children @MediaLSE & 5Rights
❇️ Highlight to explore:
👧 My rights online - toolkit for children and young people
➡️https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children/your-rights-online
By #DigitalFutures4Children @MediaLSE & 5Rights
🚨Home Sec. @YvetteCooperMP announces four new laws targeting AI-generated child sexual abuse material. A major step towards protecting children online.
Following 5Rights' call for action, the milestone affirms that AI must uphold our laws, values and our children’s safety.
Following 5Rights' call for action, the milestone affirms that AI must uphold our laws, values and our children’s safety.
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🚨Home Sec. @YvetteCooperMP announces four new laws targeting AI-generated child sexual abuse material. A major step towards protecting children online.
Following 5Rights' call for action, the milestone affirms that AI must uphold our laws, values and our children’s safety.
Following 5Rights' call for action, the milestone affirms that AI must uphold our laws, values and our children’s safety.
Childhood Redrawn: Putting responsibility for tech safety back where it belongs
Childhood Redrawn: Putting responsibility for tech safety back where it belongs
Leanda Barrington-Leach, Executive Director of 5Rights Foundation, introduces Childhood Redrawn, a campaign building support for tech to be safe for children by design and by default.
5rightsfoundation.com
September 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Childhood Redrawn: Putting responsibility for tech safety back where it belongs
By "divide" you mean: block, filter, prevent access unless age-verified, etc, yes?
The 5Rights Foundation is literally one of the engines of division on the internet; this very app includes messaging features that are locally denied to Britons who refuse to age verify.
bsky.app/profile/5rig...
The 5Rights Foundation is literally one of the engines of division on the internet; this very app includes messaging features that are locally denied to Britons who refuse to age verify.
bsky.app/profile/5rig...
What happens when the tools built to connect us are designed to divide, distract and control instead?
Join the launch of Users, the new book by Beeban Kidron, in conversation with Sonia Livingstone and Peter Wanless.
Thu 25 June
4–5pm BST
Online
www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/book-...
Join the launch of Users, the new book by Beeban Kidron, in conversation with Sonia Livingstone and Peter Wanless.
Thu 25 June
4–5pm BST
Online
www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/book-...
June 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
By "divide" you mean: block, filter, prevent access unless age-verified, etc, yes?
The 5Rights Foundation is literally one of the engines of division on the internet; this very app includes messaging features that are locally denied to Britons who refuse to age verify.
bsky.app/profile/5rig...
The 5Rights Foundation is literally one of the engines of division on the internet; this very app includes messaging features that are locally denied to Britons who refuse to age verify.
bsky.app/profile/5rig...
📚 Research found 99% of school leaders and 98% of teachers use EdTech in school - but it’s largely unregulated.
That’s why 5Rights & DFC launched Better EdTech Futures for Children to examine its impact.
💬 Hear Lord Russell warn Parliament about EdTech without safeguards.
https://loom.ly/I77rNK4
That’s why 5Rights & DFC launched Better EdTech Futures for Children to examine its impact.
💬 Hear Lord Russell warn Parliament about EdTech without safeguards.
https://loom.ly/I77rNK4
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📚 Research found 99% of school leaders and 98% of teachers use EdTech in school - but it’s largely unregulated.
That’s why 5Rights & DFC launched Better EdTech Futures for Children to examine its impact.
💬 Hear Lord Russell warn Parliament about EdTech without safeguards.
https://loom.ly/I77rNK4
That’s why 5Rights & DFC launched Better EdTech Futures for Children to examine its impact.
💬 Hear Lord Russell warn Parliament about EdTech without safeguards.
https://loom.ly/I77rNK4
高市早苗の漫画アニメを単純所持禁止に加えようとしていた件もしやECPATの準児童ポルノの件か？
漫画を捨てようキャンペーンに
野田聖子もいた気がする
矯風会もいたな
そうそうECPAT君Likedlnにて子供にAIを触らせようとしてたな
www.linkedin.com/posts/ecpat-...
漫画を捨てようキャンペーンに
野田聖子もいた気がする
矯風会もいたな
そうそうECPAT君Likedlnにて子供にAIを触らせようとしてたな
www.linkedin.com/posts/ecpat-...
Join 5Rights for the virtual launch of the Children & AI Design Code, a pioneering new protocol for the development and use of AI systems that impact children.
AI is reshaping the world at an… |...
Join 5Rights for the virtual launch of the Children & AI Design Code, a pioneering new protocol for the development and use of AI systems that impact children.
AI is reshaping the world at an unprec...
www.linkedin.com
June 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
高市早苗の漫画アニメを単純所持禁止に加えようとしていた件もしやECPATの準児童ポルノの件か？
漫画を捨てようキャンペーンに
野田聖子もいた気がする
矯風会もいたな
そうそうECPAT君Likedlnにて子供にAIを触らせようとしてたな
www.linkedin.com/posts/ecpat-...
漫画を捨てようキャンペーンに
野田聖子もいた気がする
矯風会もいたな
そうそうECPAT君Likedlnにて子供にAIを触らせようとしてたな
www.linkedin.com/posts/ecpat-...
✨ DFC's August newsletter!
1️⃣ RIGHTS. AI launch 16 Sept @ 12-1pm UTC: global South children on GenAI www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/right...
2️⃣ Look out for "A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech"
3️⃣ Blogs by #DigitalFutures4Children
mailchi.mp/5f329b907e01... @5Rights
1️⃣ RIGHTS. AI launch 16 Sept @ 12-1pm UTC: global South children on GenAI www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/right...
2️⃣ Look out for "A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech"
3️⃣ Blogs by #DigitalFutures4Children
mailchi.mp/5f329b907e01... @5Rights
Does Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) affect children's rights? Insights from children in the global South
12pm (UTC) 16 September 2026 | Livingstone, Fortim, Kaberi, Pothong and Raman | free event discussing RightsAI findings
www.digital-futures-for-children.net
August 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
✨ DFC's August newsletter!
1️⃣ RIGHTS. AI launch 16 Sept @ 12-1pm UTC: global South children on GenAI www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/right...
2️⃣ Look out for "A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech"
3️⃣ Blogs by #DigitalFutures4Children
mailchi.mp/5f329b907e01... @5Rights
1️⃣ RIGHTS. AI launch 16 Sept @ 12-1pm UTC: global South children on GenAI www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/right...
2️⃣ Look out for "A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech"
3️⃣ Blogs by #DigitalFutures4Children
mailchi.mp/5f329b907e01... @5Rights
📉Ofcom's codes must be strengthened to prevent this world-leading regulation from failing to meet children's needs.
Today, MPs echoed 5Rights and civil society organisations call for stronger codes to embed robust protections for children.
📚: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...
Today, MPs echoed 5Rights and civil society organisations call for stronger codes to embed robust protections for children.
📚: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...
Joint Briefing: Implementation of the Online Safety Act
5Rights coordinates civil society members in asking MPs to call on the Government and Ofcom to provide robust protections for children in the upcoming codes.
5rightsfoundation.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📉Ofcom's codes must be strengthened to prevent this world-leading regulation from failing to meet children's needs.
Today, MPs echoed 5Rights and civil society organisations call for stronger codes to embed robust protections for children.
📚: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...
Today, MPs echoed 5Rights and civil society organisations call for stronger codes to embed robust protections for children.
📚: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...
@JamesBaker regular reminder that Kidron is the founder of 5rights, a charity that took 1.8m in donations last year. One person at the charity is paid £150-200k. Would love to know how much of that if any came from Age Verification industry lobbyists.
5RIGHTS FOUNDATION - Charity 1178581
Charity details for 5RIGHTS FOUNDATION - Charity 1178581
register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk
February 28, 2026 at 12:01 PM
@JamesBaker regular reminder that Kidron is the founder of 5rights, a charity that took 1.8m in donations last year. One person at the charity is paid £150-200k. Would love to know how much of that if any came from Age Verification industry lobbyists.
🇬🇷 This Thurs (4th Dec), 5Rights’ Leanda Barrington-Leach joins the Athens Roundtable to discuss protecting children from untested AI and setting limits for frontier AI with Sofia Zacharaki, Greek Minister of Education & Religious Affairs.
Join online: https://loom.ly/VqgkTGs
#AIAthens2025
Join online: https://loom.ly/VqgkTGs
#AIAthens2025
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🇬🇷 This Thurs (4th Dec), 5Rights’ Leanda Barrington-Leach joins the Athens Roundtable to discuss protecting children from untested AI and setting limits for frontier AI with Sofia Zacharaki, Greek Minister of Education & Religious Affairs.
Join online: https://loom.ly/VqgkTGs
#AIAthens2025
Join online: https://loom.ly/VqgkTGs
#AIAthens2025
📍 Event: Five years of UNCRC General comment No. 25.
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
🗓️ Mon 2 March, 12:00 CET
digital-futures-for-children.net/events/GC25-...
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
🗓️ Mon 2 March, 12:00 CET
digital-futures-for-children.net/events/GC25-...
February 25, 2026 at 11:18 AM
📍 Event: Five years of UNCRC General comment No. 25.
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
🗓️ Mon 2 March, 12:00 CET
digital-futures-for-children.net/events/GC25-...
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
🗓️ Mon 2 March, 12:00 CET
digital-futures-for-children.net/events/GC25-...
Final DSA guidelines deliver historic win for children’s rights online after years of 5Rights advocacy / @5rightsfound.bsky.social 5rightsfoundation.com/final-dsa-gu...
A Win for Children’s Rights: Final DSA Guidelines After 5Rights Advocacy
The European Commission’s final guidelines on Article 28.1 of the Digital Services Act incorporate key recommendations from 5Rights’ baseline and coalition advocacy that shaped the framework from ince...
5rightsfoundation.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Final DSA guidelines deliver historic win for children’s rights online after years of 5Rights advocacy / @5rightsfound.bsky.social 5rightsfoundation.com/final-dsa-gu...