L. Barrington-Leach

Executive Director @5RightsFound, advocating for a digital world that caters for children, by design and default.

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🟢 Now live: “Securing Child Safety in the Age of the Algorithms” at #IGF2025 -- featuring our Executive Director Leanda Barrington-Leach and voices from government and tech.

🎥 https://t.co/xbtGbjwGue

#AI #Children #RightsByDesign

@intgovforum @internetsociety @UNICEF

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

Today marks a pivotal milestone at 5Rights: we are delighted to welcome Sir Peter Wanless as our new Chair, as Baroness Beeban Kidron becomes our Honorary President.

Together, we continue our mission to build the digital world children deserve.
💻 https://t.co/JvrXNfEaJL

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🚸 As AI reshapes childhood, it must respect children’s rights, by design and default.

Join @LeandaBL at #IGF2025 High-level Session: “Securing Child Safety in the Age of Algorithms”

🗓️ Thu 26 June, 09:30-11:00 CEST
📍@intgovforum and online

Register✍️ https://t.co/l2s9b0NuP4

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

Don't miss this! Happening today - and a surprise extra guest to be announced shortly ;)

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🚸Let's make sure the rise of AI is a gift for children, not a curse.

Join our virtual launch of our Children & AI Design Code! With leading voices in digital governance alongside experts behind the Code.

🗓️29/04
🕓16:00-17:15 (BST)
🖋️ https://t.co/gYXHiwt4hA

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

Join us 29 April 5pm CET to talk AI and children with leaders from @UN @coe @_AfricanUnion as well as @MediaLSE and @IEEEorg experts

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

Join us 29 April 5pm CET to talk AI and children with leaders from @UN @coe @_AfricanUnion as well as @MediaLSE and @IEEEorg experts

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🤖We owe it to children to show the forethought to make AI safe and empowering - that's why we need to bring the Children & AI Design Code to life.

Join @gioasempre, for our Virtual Launch of The Children & AI Design Code.

💻Register:
https://t.co/gYXHiwt4hA

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🚸Tech companies are blocking their own Trust & Safety (T&S) teams from protecting children against harm. @LeandaBL on @LBC's Online Safety Day with @ShelaghFogarty.

More in our report on how T&S teams can advance digital safety & accountability:
https://t.co/doGo3gDNo3

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

Thanks @EPPGroup for inviting us today to discuss how we can protect and empower children online, alongside @EU_Justice, @videogames_EU and @DOTEurope

We have a chance to turn the EU into the safest and most empowering place in the world to be a child online - we can't miss it!

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

We can't allow tech companies to exploit children's lives and data. The EU can stop this by fully implementing existing regulation, fill regulatory gaps and incentivise compliance through innovation.

Thanks @EPPGroup for inviting @LeandaBL to speak on protecting minors online.

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

💻Tech companies put children in danger, by fighting against basic product safety.

We agree with @PabloAriasE: the EU shouldn't give companies free rein on matters that affect our lives.

Thanks @EPPGroup for inviting @LeandaBL to speak on protecting minors online.

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🤔Do you want to ban phones in schools?

In our latest ep. of #TechThisOut! Professor @Livingstone_S, @MediaLSE & #DFC, and 5Rights Youth Ambassador Jessica talk about the balance of children's online safety & digital literacy.

Listen⬇️ https://t.co/cFLWGC8AVd

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

.@PrivacyAssembly with our Trustee and Children's Code pioneer @LizDenham1. This morning reminded regulators that digital literacy cannot deliver if terms are not fair and services unsafe for children by design. Time to step up and hold tech accountable for due diligence!

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🌐Latest research from @HindenburgRes further shows that tech companies are failing to keep children safe online.

Existing provisions and the implementation of the #OnlineSafetyAct must be strengthened to protect children by design and default.

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

🚨New Episode Alert🚨

Ep.3 of #TechThisOut is live!🎧

Join Chair and Founder Baroness Kidron and our Youth Ambassador Matheo as they discuss the tech design techniques undermining our autonomy and that of children.

🔗 Listen now: https://t.co/xiv85YGzL0

[Accountable Tech @accountabletech]

.@Zamaan_Qureshi on the #KOSA changes made ahead of Wednesday's markup, which reflect a weakened duty of care:

“We want to see some of those definitions changed before the bill reaches the House floor to make sure that we’re protecting all young people.” https://t.co/oV7q5iRFxm

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

We must embed safety by design and default to allow for positive innovation, says ⁦@5RightsFound⁩ Chair Baroness Kidron. EU with DSA is trying to get this right, says Human Rights rep ⁦@OlofBSkoog⁩. We must have enforced regulation, adds ⁦@UN_EndViolence⁩

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

@5RightsFound was essential to the development of the @UNChildRights1 General comment 25 says Chair @askelton_CCL; and to Rwanda and AU child online safety policies says @MusoniPaula. Now, we must still do our homework, says @UNICEF @KittyvdHeijden

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

Prince Harry ⁦@ClintonGlobal⁩ makes emotional appeal for the digital world children deserve and safety by design. Enough exploitation. Platforms must be held accountable and our kids must be safe.

[5Rights Foundation @5RightsFound]

“Kids will be kids” but should they be targeted by harmful social media design?

Prince Harry from #ArchewellFoundation at #CGI2024 @ClintonFdn speaks on holding platforms accountable and creating a digital world that is #SafeByDesign.

Watch his powerful speech 📺

[L. Barrington-Leach @LeandaBL]

« As we connect, please do not forget our children. We have a huge challenge to ensure they are safe and can thrive online and we must not fail them. » Thank you @vestager for ensuring children are not forgotten as @UN bets big on digital for development