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.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)
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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:10PM
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.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:43PM
[* That's the Mass Information Collectors, not Military-Industrial Complex.]
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