This paper presents insights from interviews with young people from migrant and diaspora backgrounds, conducted to inform the development of the Children’s Online Privacy Code. Prepared for the Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner, the briefing amplifies youth perspectives on digital privacy and highlights their priorities for policy reform.

Participants shared their views across three key areas:

1. Their experiences of online privacy.
2. Their thoughts and perspectives around transparency and notices.
3. Ideas for the Code development, including suggestions for key principles or guidelines

Recommendations

• Clear, easy to understand privacy notices that outline what data is being collected and how it is used in simple language.
• ‘Unavoidable’ privacy notices, that make sure all users read and engage with them.
• The design and layout of privacy notices, including the use of privacy notices in different formats such as video or image form.
• Provision of privacy notices in different languages, to make it easier for users for whom English is not their first language.
• The right to see what data is collected about them, and the right to request it is deleted.
• Limitations on the ability of platforms to sell young people’s data.
• Stronger data limitation.
• Improvements in data protection and cyber security.
• Limit access to the internet and devices for children.