IEEE 2089 Section 7 - Digital Literacy and Empowerment
Services should promote digital literacy by providing educational resources and age-appropriate tools helping children understand online safety and privacy
Where this comes from
Provision: Section 7 - Digital Literacy and Empowerment
Instrument: IEEE 2089-2021
Citation: IEEE 2089-2021, Standard for an Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework, Section 7: Digital Literacy and Empowerment
Text version: IEEE 2089-2021
Who it applies to
It applies when all of these are true:
- Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Implementation or documented process meets the reviewed acceptance criteria; identify the tested version and deployment status separately
- Configure defaults from the assessed source and purpose; do not enable data collection or processing merely because this task exists
- Validate behavior for the assessed actors and use cases, including applicable guest or administrator paths
- UI clearly communicates what the feature does to users
- API returns appropriate error codes when feature blocks an action
Questions people ask
- Does IEEE 2089 Section 7 - Digital Literacy and Empowerment apply to my service?
- It applies when Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18.
- From when does this apply?
- IEEE 2089 Section 7 - Digital Literacy and Empowerment applies from 10 November 2021. Its current status is: in force.
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