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'When my EFF colleague Alexis Hancock signed her baby up for daycare, she was
told that she had to download a childcare management app – to monitor and
specify "feedings, diaper changes, pictures, activities, and which guardian
picked-up/dropped-off the child."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/daycare-apps-are-dangerously-insecure
This was during the lockdown, and the app was a way to comply with social
distancing and contact tracing rules, but it was also designed to help with
"separation anxiety of newly enrolled children and their anxious parents."
Alexis wasn't the only EFFer with a newborn encountering these apps. Being a
digital privacy and security expert, she and her colleagues started to pick
apart these apps and seek dialogue with the companies that made them. They
discovered a nightmare of bad security practices, worse privacy practice, and
yawning indifference to the digital wellbeing of very small children and their
parents.'
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
