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Name
Baroness Beeban Kidron
Title
Founder and Chair, 5Rights Foundation
Bio
Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE is a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords and an advocate for children’s rights in the digital world.
Before entering the House of Lords, Kidron spent 30 years as a film director, making dramas; notably, the BAFTA-winning Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar; and documentaries such as Sex Death and the Gods and InRealLife among others. She was the co-founder of the educational charity IntoFilm, now accessed by more than half of all UK state schools free of charge.
Kidron is the Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation, a charity that works to create policy and practical solutions to build the digital world children and young people deserve. Amongst its flagship projects, 5Rights is drafting the General Comment on the Digital World on behalf of the Council on the Rights of the Child; creating an international standard for Age Appropriate Published Terms; working with countries around the world to create a Global Handbook on Child Online Protection, and hosting the Digital Futures Commission.
In the House of Lords Kidron successfully introduced amendments to the Data Protection Act 2018 that resulted in the Age Appropriate Design Code (‘Children’s Code’); the first legislation of its kind, delivering high standards of data protection for users under the age of 18. She sat on the Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee 2020 and was previously a member of the Lords Communications Select Committee.
Kidron is a member of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, the Global Council on Extended Intelligence, the Data Protection Foundation and the Advisory Council for the Institute of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford.
Before entering the House of Lords, Kidron spent 30 years as a film director, making dramas; notably, the BAFTA-winning Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar; and documentaries such as Sex Death and the Gods and InRealLife among others. She was the co-founder of the educational charity IntoFilm, now accessed by more than half of all UK state schools free of charge.
Kidron is the Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation, a charity that works to create policy and practical solutions to build the digital world children and young people deserve. Amongst its flagship projects, 5Rights is drafting the General Comment on the Digital World on behalf of the Council on the Rights of the Child; creating an international standard for Age Appropriate Published Terms; working with countries around the world to create a Global Handbook on Child Online Protection, and hosting the Digital Futures Commission.
In the House of Lords Kidron successfully introduced amendments to the Data Protection Act 2018 that resulted in the Age Appropriate Design Code (‘Children’s Code’); the first legislation of its kind, delivering high standards of data protection for users under the age of 18. She sat on the Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee 2020 and was previously a member of the Lords Communications Select Committee.
Kidron is a member of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, the Global Council on Extended Intelligence, the Data Protection Foundation and the Advisory Council for the Institute of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford.
