It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels the industry itself is causing much more damage than good. Here is a short summary of the damages it is causing and how to deal with them.
  • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
    112·
    7 months ago

    Why hasn’t Marie done any work today?

    Oh, she’s white knuckling a baby monitor to see if she can trust the babysitter

  • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    63·
    7 months ago

    When a parent is anxious about the child enough to install a bloody tracking app. The parents is giving the data about the child to the criminals.

    That sounds unlikely and more paranoid than the parents who would install those apps… How many criminals are going to data brokers to track their child targets?

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      sometimes people call those as criminals who run a business in personal data. I can’t fault them for it

      • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        7 months ago

        I could understand that. But, with a bit more context from the article (that I should have included), it’s talking about the criminals that are targeting specific individual children to assault them.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      3·
      7 months ago

      How many criminals are going to data brokers to track their child targets?

      They’re already there… and they have no qualms to sell that data to whoever. The abortion cases as an example.