The bargain at the heart of the kid internet
The bargain at the heart of the kid internet
- April 12, 2018
- Mimi Ito, anthropology, in The Atlantic, April 12, 2018
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“There’s huge incentives for [kids] and families to lie about age”—as in, confirming that kids are 13 or older when they’re not—“so even the data [about users that companies keep] gets corrupted,” Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, told me. Kids (and parents) want engaging, cheap, or free videos regardless of how old they are ….
For the full story, please visit https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/04/child-data-privacy/557840/.
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