"A child’s digital identity is formed before birth, when digital health records are created and families post online. A child’s online footprint can be set before they start to engage themselves, and follows them throughout their development and into adulthood. Protecting them from security breaches, identity theft, exploitation and bullying is more important today than ever, due to rapid and constantly emerging technical developments such as AI. We don’t send our children out in the street and encourage them to share all their personal details with strangers, nor wear a sign around their necks with their phone number and address, but this is exactly what happens online.

Today, there are privacy and safety regulatory requirements that compel organisations to put in place privacy protections. Implementing valid consent, age and identity verification for younger children and teens is mandatory. By introducing a one-stop secure privacy solution, where parents and dancers only share data once, and seeking transparent consent, ICDR is helping build a safer ecosystem for dancers and industry."