Design online services for children using the ICO child first standards.
If a service is likely to be accessed by children, the Children's Code affects defaults, profiling, geolocation, sharing, and transparency.
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The Children's Code changes product settings, feature design, vendor choices, and testing practices for online services likely to be accessed by children.
The first decision is whether children are likely to access the service. ICO guidance expects a real assessment of audience, features, marketing, and actual user patterns, not a simple statement that the service is intended for adults.
The standards most often missed in practice are high privacy by default, data minimisation, avoiding detrimental uses, turning geolocation off by default, disabling profiling by default unless there is a compelling reason, and not using nudge techniques that push children toward weaker privacy.
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