Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Balancing Digital Privacy with Child Safety Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Rights-Based Framework for the Digital Age
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, represents the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history with 196 parties as of 2026, yet today's children face unprecedented digital challenges that were entirely unimaginable at the time of its drafting. The intersection of digital privacy and child safety represents one of the most complex and frequently misunderstood tensions in contemporary children's rights discourse, with public discourse often …