Описание: From baby pictures in the cloud to a high schools digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise childrens privacy online.
Our childrens first digital footprints are made before they can walk--even before they are born--as parents use fertility apps to aid conception, post ultrasound images, and share their babys hospital mug shot. Then, in rapid succession come terabytes of baby pictures stored in the cloud, digital baby monitors with built-in artificial intelligence, and real-time updates from daycare. When school starts, there are cafeteria cards that catalog food purchases, bus passes that track when kids are on and off the bus, electronic health records in the nurses office, and a school surveillance system that has eyes everywhere. Unwittingly, parents, teachers, and other trusted adults are compiling digital dossiers for children that could be available to everyone--friends, employers, law enforcement--forever. In this incisive book, Leah Plunkett examines the implications of sharenthood--adults excessive digital sharing of childrens data. She outlines the mistakes adults make with kids private information, the risks that result, and the legal system that enables sharenting.
Plunkett describes various modes of sharenting--including commercial sharenting, efforts by parents to use their families private experiences to make money--and unpacks the faulty assumptions made by our legal system about children, parents, and privacy. She proposes a thought compass to guide adults in their decision making about childrens digital data: play, forget, connect, and respect. Enshrining every false step and bad choice, Plunkett argues, can rob children of their chance to explore and learn lessons. The Internet needs to forget. We need to remember.
