“We’re Never Doing This Again”: What It Took for These Parenting Influencers to Pull Their Kids Offline – Cosmopolitan
This is how Annalee explains her decision to take her daughters offline, which she did in the spring of 2023:… read more
The Parenting Influencers Who Won’t Stop Posting Their Children – Cosmopolitan
In 2024, the messy business of family vlogging is at an inflection point: to show your kids online or not?… read more
What’s the Price of a Childhood Turned Into Content? – Cosmopolitan
There is only one state in the entire country—Illinois—where child influencers are legally entitled to a percentage of the money… read more
Data Brokers Watch
We curate the largest publicly available database of data brokers and make it available to the wider research community. The… read more
Can You Hide a Child’s Face From A.I.? – New York Times
But in September, she discovered her efforts hadn’t been entirely successful. Kodye Elyse used PimEyes, a startling search engine that… read more
The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified – The Atlantic
In the United States, parental authority supersedes a child’s right to privacy, and socially, we’ve normalized sharing information about and… read more
Your Browser Extensions Might Make You More Trackable – LifeWire
The researcher, who uses the pseudonym z0ccc, explained that browser fingerprinting is a powerful method many websites use to collect… read more
Data promiscuity: How the public–private distinction shaped digital data infrastructures and notions of privacy (Hoeyer, 2020)
This essay discusses the performative effects of the public–private distinction on digital data infrastructures in healthcare. The words ‘public’ and… read more
My Name-Twin Was Arrested for Robbery…and Everyone Thought It Was Me – Narratively
A few weeks later, I woke up to a slew of texts from people in town asking if I was… read more
Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life – Cracked Labs
Report: How thousands of companies monitor, analyze, and influence the lives of billions. Who are the main players in today’s… read more