Report explores algorithmic personalisation for minors

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) has published a comprehensive report examining algorithmic personalisation in young people's digital experiences and its implications for emerging policy and product design. Personalisation utilises personal data to tailor content, ranking, and recommendations across nearly every digital service used by minors. While it offers functional and protective benefits like adaptive learning, community discovery, and age-appropriate safety protections, it has become a central target of regulatory efforts aiming to shield minors from online harms.

To assist policymakers and companies in navigating these nuances, the report evaluates the tradeoffs of more than a dozen emerging risk mitigation strategies. These include alternative approaches to content curation, data minimisation, mitigating the risks associated with AI chatbots, and safety and well-being measures.

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