Ms Alex Cooney:

The Article 28 guidelines reference the recommender algorithm. The issue is going to be around enforcement because the language is not black and white. It allows optionality. It talks about prioritising explicitly stated interests as regards children, for example, but the word "prioritised" suggests that an alternative is possible. We need to tighten up this language and have much clearer guidelines - more than guidelines, actually - practices and policies in relation to the recommender algorithm and children. We do not think it should be based on profiling or behavioural inferences at all. Ideally, it would be at the European level as well, in order to protect a much wider group of children.