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Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth'

posted by martyb on Thursday November 08 2018, @08:10PM   
from the I-know-what-you-did-last-summer-and-the-one-before-that-and-the-one... dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

The children's commissioner for England is calling on internet giants and toy-makers to be more transparent about the data they are collecting on children.

Today's children are the first to be "datafied" from birth and little thought has been given to the consequences, a report for her says.

Who Knows What about Me? calls for a statutory duty of care between social media giants and their younger users.

And it urges the government to consider strengthening data protection laws.

The report focuses on connected toys, biometric data collected by schools and the National Health Service, and social media.

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• It's the following generation that's screwed. It's the following generation that's screwed. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @08:41PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @08:41PM (#759536)

  The current smartphone & tablet generation is only teens anyhow. It's their younger siblings and offspring that are going to get the "I'm sorry your kid can't attend the enhanced math class since he didn't score high enough on Temple Run when he was 5" treatment.

• Re:It's the following generation that's screwed. Re:It's the following generation that's screwed. (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)

  by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:10PM (#759543)

  I would be amazed if my government (or the education dept run by them) were even nearly competent enough to be able to do that.

  Frankly I am sure they wouldn't even realise it was a possibility.

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  • Re:It's the following generation that's screwed. (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:10PM (#759566)

    In the west, it will start with private schools paying for Google data analysis service; Move to charity foundations handing out scholarships; And finally reach public schools.

    In China it's probably already on the TODO list for the social score system.

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  • Re:It's the following generation that's screwed. (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:43PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:43PM (#759588) Homepage

    Your government isn't. It will outsource it to a company in the MIC*.
    
    [* That's the Mass Information Collectors, not Military-Industrial Complex.]

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