Cybersecurity Policy Report, Results of Consultation on Children’s Privacy Published in Australia, (Oct 21, 2025)
By Tony Foley
The Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner (OAIC) recently provided an outline of the results of a consultation it launched earlier this year asking children, young people, and parents to share their views on children’s online privacy as part of the agency’s mandate to develop a Children’s Online Privacy Code.
The OAIC’s request for feedback, initiated in May, concerned the mandate in the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 that the agency develop the children’s code and asked for input designed to ensure that the code reflects the voices and experiences of interested parties (CPR, May 16). The results of the consultation, accessible from this webpage, included responses from over 200 children ages 3 to 12 indicating, among other things, that they wanted to be asked more often if their personal information would be collected and used, to learn and understand why companies want such information, and to be presented with short and simple-to-read privacy policies.
The OAIC encouraged parents and teachers to share the results of the consultation report with the young people in their lives to facilitate conversations about online privacy.
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