The Five Biggest Threats to Your Kids’ Privacy, and What You Can Do About Them

Remember back in school, when your teachers warned that everything you did would go on your permanent record? It turns out your teachers have become right. That permanent record is the Internet. It’s hard to be a fully functioning adult in 2014 and not leave behind a digital trail. From the moment they emerge from the womb, they’re generating data, which is then eagerly absorbed and stored by Internet companies, government agencies and some evil no-goodniks. Despite federal laws prohibiting the collection of data from children under the age of 13, dossiers are constantly being created about your kids, whether it’s Google capturing their search histories, advertisers creating profiles of their interests, or their grandparents tagging photos of them on Facebook. Canadian Singles Find New Ways To Meet Sure, you could try to keep them off the net, refuse to buy them cell phones, go Full Amish if you have to. UrthBox Healthy Snack Boxes. Math Practice - Ages 5-15 Questions, complaints, kudos?

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Tynan, Dan (2014). The five biggest threats to your kids’ privacy, and what you can do about them. Retrieved from by estherpepin Mar 9