Baroness Beeban Kidron

Baroness Beeban Kidron is a global authority on digital regulation and accountability, and is a leading voice on children’s rights in the digital environment. She has played a determinative role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world. Baroness Kidron sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords, and is founder and former Chair of the 5Rights Foundation. She serves on the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy and is a former member of the UN Broadband Commission. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, where she chairs the Digital Futures for Children research centre, and is an advisor to the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. Her new book is USERS: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back.

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Baroness Beeban Kidron
on how big tech took control and how to fight back
Sandi Tokvsig
Sandi Toksvig
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5x15 Special: Beeban Kidron & Sandi Toksvig on Reclaiming Childhood from Big Tech

Filmmaker and campaigner Baroness Beeban Kidron, author of new book USERS, speaks to writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig about childhood, technology and power in the digital age.