Data protection is not enough: children need better digital rights law in education

The digital world offers opportunities for children to learn, but the experience is becoming increasingly commercialised. Classrooms have become networked environments from which data generated by teachers and students is extracted and processed by an unseen and unlimited number of unknown third parties afforded access into children’s lives. Emerging technologies have implications for children, labour rights and the role of families and teachers. If data protection law cannot protect the full range of children’s human rights, what will?