This paper documents the findings from a survey about online privacy of Australian young people aged 13-17. It was presented as a briefing given to the Office of the Australian Privacy Commission to support their work in drafting the Children’s Online Privacy Code.

It addressed 10 questions: 

1. How to better communicate data practices with young people
2. Perspectives on default privacy settings
3. Perspectives on default geolocation settings
4. Preferred ages for parental consent
5. Suitability of processing personal data without consent
6. Perspectives on the use of personal data for targeted advertising
7. Perspectives on data retention
8. Perspectives on data access
9. Where young people would lodge a complaint
10. Anything else young people wanted to say