What tech companies know about your kids | Veronica Barassi

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The digital platforms you and your family use every day — from online games to education apps and medical portals — may be collecting and selling your children's data, says anthropologist Veronica Barassi. Sharing her eye-opening research, Barassi urges parents to look twice at digital terms and conditions instead of blindly accepting them — and to demand protections that ensure their kids' data doesn't skew their future.

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24 Comments on What tech companies know about your kids | Veronica Barassi

  1. It really is scary how much information is stored online about each and every one of us, the internet has taken the idea of a “free world” literally.

  2. that question ‘SO WHAT ? ‘ is really common ,even my sister asked me once what if they collected informations about us when i used a pseudo name for a website..this really is a relevant topic .Thank you for sharing such an amazing speech about such a fabulous topic

  3. The crucial fight that we can’t able to fight in future.. Our own basic rights are being shared publicly and we’re just dumb, asking ‘So What?’

  4. See where the AI is leading us to.. We all had think about the better society bt this capitalistic society just sucking nd making profit even more

  5. I care about this. I recently tried to deactivate from FaceBook and found that though I download all my information from the platform, it was only a copy. Everything I ever uploaded or keyed into FaceBook is thiers for keeps. You can’t imagine how angry I was with myself for being so uninformed.

  6. If you had told us ‘my children’, we wouldn’t know that you had girls. But you gave it away by saying ‘my daughters’.

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