Dr Claire Bessant is an Associate Professor in Law at Northumbria Law School. Much of Claire’s research considers the concept of family privacy and how it operates to protect the twenty-first century family from state and societal intrusion, particularly in the context of increasing technology use. Her empirical work on family privacy has recently been used to develop a new framework for understanding the relationship between family, state and society (‘Twenty-First Century Family Privacy’ (2023) Child and Family Law Quarterly 35(3) 251-274) and to provide new perspectives to discussions on children’s privacy and the role parents and Government should play in protecting children from online harms (Parental approaches to protecting children from online harm: Trust, Protectionism or Dialogue? in Setty, Gordon and Nottingham, Children, Young People and Online Harms Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).