Digital child safety at the frontier

Faculty Associate Sandra Cortesi and Co-Director Urs Gasser identify four design approaches that align children's online safety with their rights and agency. In a new paper in Science, detailing the yearslong Frontiers in Digital Child Safety group's findings, the authors' identified approaches are: fostering trust, enabling help-seeking and reporting, providing on-device supports, and strengthening education and user-interface design. "Without stronger interfaces between research, design, and governance, findings stay siloed and lessons fail to translate into systemic change."