We all want the best for our children and we all want to protect them from the worst but we could all be inadvertently handing them a bomb when we share too much, or anything, about them online.
This is the message of the anthropologist Dr Veronica Barassi who spoke to me for Show Me The Way. She explains that the "more data we are producing about children, the more that we are creating them as datafied citizens and if we create them as datafied citizens, most probably we are stripping them of the right to self-define in the future". This could in turn impact whether they get health insurance, a loan..or even a job.
Dr Barassi explores social media data, education data (like google classroom), health data and home data - so all the data gathered from digital assistants and AI within the home.
It's important she believes, to emphasise it's about the amount of data that is being collected, not about the amount of data that is being shared.
This is definitely worth a listen if you're in lockdown with your children, home schooling, distance learning, using Alexa to help with homework or even posting pictures on social media platforms.
Child Data Citizen
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