Speaking about the systemic problems in the technology sector, Kidron said: “Unless we start to understand how the tech itself is driving the problem and deal with it upstream, in the design and regulation of services, we will always be playing catchup while the kids pay the price.”
While using social media and other online platforms, “children are nudged into giving up more and more data about themselves, and more and more time in their lives,” Kidron added, in a stark warning over predators’ easy access to children on social media sites such as Snapchat.
“We could say childhood is driven by commercial interests and in the relentless pursuit of that, anything goes,” she added. “I do mean anything: political lies, health lies, violent content, pornography in the hands of eight-year-olds, introducing strange adults to children, publishing their locations to predators.”
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