Children’s right to digital safety : evaluating the way by which the law can increase effective protection for children in South Africa

Abstract

In the midst of a growing concern for digital security globaly, there is a move towards reforms of legal instruments. however, the improvements are not addressing the root issues in digital insecurity, and thus the law stays outpaced by technological advancement. In this mini-dissertation, there is a discussion of what constitutes digital insecurity and how the law should be examined for meeting this standard so as to outpace technological advancement or in the least, meet realtime issues of children's safety in the digital age.