What Constant Surveillance Is Doing To Children
(www.theatlantic.com)
from TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works to privacy@lemmy.ml on 13 Nov 03:06
https://sh.itjust.works/post/69844470
from TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works to privacy@lemmy.ml on 13 Nov 03:06
https://sh.itjust.works/post/69844470
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/69844421
No one warned me, when I became a parent, about all the apps that would colonize my phone: the app for the baby monitor where I could gaze at my daughter, even when my husband and I finally had a night out. The app for the Snoo smart bassinet we rented in bleary-eyed desperation, which logged her sleep by the minute. The app where I logged her sleep manually because the Snoo was not accurate enough. And still, I remember thinking that I had been quite restrained. I mean, I didn’t buy the $299 Owlet smart sock, which would send her pulse rate and oxygen saturation directly to my phone, or the $290 Nanit monitor, which would track her every breath.
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And that’s just the way the parents are using the data, imagine having all that medical data so when it becomes legal again to exclude people from health insurance for “preexisting conditions” as “Obamacare"/the Affordable Care Act is ever being whiddled away, the insurance companies will have all that evidence of all those conditions right from the data brokers. Just one of many examples of course.