Children’s Data Protection in Vietnam: Legal Framework and Challenges

Purpose: This study offers a comprehensive examination of the prevailing legal framework and explores the associated challenges encountered about parental literacy, children’s digital literacy, and the gap in the children-parent relationship to guarantee appropriate consent and its practical application in Vietnam. Study methodology: Researching the State’s legal documents is very important; Decrees and circulars are also necessary legal documents used in the research process. In addition to the legal bases that are considered the basis for analysis and evaluation; Interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research methods are used such as dialectical materialism methodology, analysis-synthesis, logic-history, induction - interpretation, etc. Results and Discussion: Research results have shown that: The current framework for protecting children’s data in Vietnam has shortcomings that need to be corrected and supplemented accordingly; at the same time, challenges for implementing this legal framework to practice in Vietnam also need to be clarified to find solutions. Recommendations: Safeguarding children’s data in the digital era is a paramount global concern, and Vietnam is not an exception to this imperative. Noteworthy efforts have been undertaken within the legal framework to protect children’s data in Vietnam. Nevertheless, several persistent challenges hinder the efficient realization of these legislative measures. Society and technology are increasingly developing, therefore, legal regulations need to be supplemented to help parents and society best protect children’s data in the digital age.