In today’s digitalized world, we are continuously confronted with the possibility of sharing information about ourselves, but for whether the possibility becomes the reality our consent, is needed. However, there is a large group of individuals for whom sharing information about themselves is not an option, but a fact. This group consists of children, who from an early age are subjected to sharenting, i.e. parental posting of content about their children online. In this master's thesis, I examine the legal aspects of sharenting in the light of children's rights. First, I analyse whether sharenting can constitute a violation of children's rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, focusing both on the parental posting itself as well as on the parental posting resulting in monetisation, in terms of labour law issues. Following the analysis, I confirm the first hypothesis that sharenting may constitute a violation of children's rights under the CRC. I proceed with an analysis of the possibilities for children to claim violations of their rights in relation to sharenting in Slovenia, by firstly exploring the merits of children's rights in Slovenian law, and then focusing on children's procedural possibilities. I conclude with a partial confirmation of the second hypothesis, namely that there is a system in place for the protection of large-scale violations of children's rights, which can also be applied to sharenting in the case of clear violations of a specific child's right, but I do not detect any already established (preventive) protection of children's rights regarding parents' publication of online content about their children.
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