Intro: If you hadn’t noticed, the U.S. doesn’t give much of a shit about this whole privacy thing______________________________________________
Our privacy regulators are comically and intentionally understaffed and underfunded, we still have no meaningful privacy law for the Internet era, and when regulators do act, it’s generally months after the fact with penalties that are easily laughed off by companies rich from data over-collection.
FTC Politely Asks Education Companies If They Would Maybe Stop Spying On Kids
Wed, May 25th 2022 06:28am - Karl Bode
“Students must be able to do their schoolwork without surveillance by companies looking to harvest their data to pad their bottom line,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
“Parents should not have to choose between their children’s privacy and their participation in the digital classroom. The FTC will be closely monitoring this market to ensure that parents are not being forced to surrender to surveillance for their kids’ technology to turn on.”
Unlike the broader dumpster fire that is adult data collection and monetization on the Internet, kids are at least semi-protected by the sloppy mess that is COPPA, a law that was intended to protect kids’ privacy, but was so poorly written as to create all manner of unintended consequences. .."
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