IEEE 2089-2021

This standard is the first in a family of standards focused on the 5Rights principles and establishes a set of processes for developing age appropriate digital services for situations where users are children. The framework centers around the following key areas as follows: a) Recognition that the user is a child b) Consideration for the capacity of and upholds the rights of children c) Offers terms appropriate to children d) Presents information in an age appropriate way e) Offers a level of validation for service design decisions This standard provides a specific impact rating system and evaluation criteria and explains how vendors, public institutions, and the educational sector can meet the criteria. This standard sets normative requirements for published terms, design, and delivery that can recognize and respond to the needs of children and young people. Data privacy and security are complex and highly regulated areas of law, particularly as related to children and young people. The relevant legal definitions and requirements are rapidly evolving, and may vary at the local, state, national, and regional level. No standard can provide unconditional consistency with all such laws and regulations. Users of this standard are responsible for referring to and observing all applicable legal and regulatory requirements, and should refer questions of compliance to competent legal counsel with expertise in the relevant jurisdiction.

This standard provides a set of processes for digital services when end users are children, and, by doing so, aids in the tailoring of the services that are provided so that they are age appropriate. This is essential to creating a digital environment that supports, by design and delivery, children safety, privacy, autonomy, agency, and health, specifically providing a set of guidelines and best practices and thereby offering a level of validation for service design decisions.

New IEEE Standard - Active. A set of processes by which organizations seek to make their services age appropriate is established in this standard. The growing desire of organizations to design digital products and services with children in mind and reflects their existing rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention) is supported by this standard. While different jurisdictions may have different laws and regulations in place, the best practice for designing digital services that impact directly or indirectly on children is offered by this standard. It sets out processes through the life cycle of development, delivery and distribution, that will help organizations ask the right relevant questions of their services, identify risks and opportunities by which to make their services age appropriate and take steps to mitigate risk and embed beneficial systems that support increased age appropriate engagement. One in three users online is under 18, which means that this standard has wide application. (The PDF of this standard is available in the IEEE GET program at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/standards/get-program/page/series?id=93)