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

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:55PM (1 child)

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:55PM (#759595)

    Do you want YOUR child being laughed at for being the only one without a Disney Implant(TM)? We shape the scar like Mickey!

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday November 09 2018, @03:47PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 09 2018, @03:47PM (#759900) Journal

    Each child has many toys. So putting data collection devices into toys creates much e-waste. (or iWaste) Data collection devices in children is only a one-to-one thing. So it's more efficient1.

    1Efficient: (noun) the property of working towards a goal using the fewest possible number of fish.

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