L'empowerment del minore nella dimensione digitale

Among the global challenges of our time, that of 'child protection online' certainly represents one of the most urgent and complex from a legal, social, economic and ethical point of view. As a result of public awareness of this issue and actions taken in particular by the European Union and the international community, a number of initiatives have been launched to promote greater protection for children and better awareness of their rights on their part. This work, taking its cue from the recent approval of the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, therefore addresses the issue of childempowerment in the digital dimension, which, as it is intended to demonstrate, is located in the context of the child's existential and educational choices and, therefore, calls for the analysis of relationships both outside and within the family unit. The research also carries out a concrete and comparative reflection on whether it is necessary or appropriate to intervene in the same direction as the English experience also in other models - such as civil law models - or, instead, with reference to the national system, whether it is not more appropriate to carry out a new reconstruction and interpretation of already established rules and general principles.