Are digital platforms quietly harvesting your children's personal data?
In short: From educational apps to online gaming, the tools your family uses daily may be collecting and selling sensitive information about your children.
Anthropologist Veronica Barassi presents research into how digital platforms—including medical portals and education apps—may be gathering and trading children's data. She argues that the practice of blindly accepting terms and conditions puts children's futures at risk, and calls for parents to scrutinize these agreements to demand better protections.
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