It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels the industry itself is causing much more damage than good. Here is a short summary of the damages it is causing and how to deal with them.
  • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    7 days ago

    Saving a click: the industry is “child surveillance“.

    Yeah, it’s as creepy as it sounds.

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    Tell me, how many nannies shake their babies? You know, a good hard shake, like, like tryin’ to get ketchup out of a bottle. One percent? Less?

    Funny, that. They sell a billion dollars worth of that shit worldwide. Goes to show you, doesn’t it? The bollocks people will believe if you get them scared enough.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    If a slightly older person would migrate to GNU / Linux from a suggestion that it is more private. A young person, who underwent surveillance parenting, will most likely not give a damn.

    Oddlyspecific

    • kalpol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Still gotta block them at the firewall in case they are phoning home. Caught some of mine doing that

    • koper@feddit.nlEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      It doesn’t. Self-hosted open source surveillance is still surveillance. Constantly monitoring your children (above a certain age) is still helicopter parenting.

      • ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        22·
        6 days ago

        They’re months old, fuck off telling me that’s helicopter parenting. Don’t comment when you literally don’t know

        • koper@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          That’s obviously not what this article is about. Notice how I said “above a certain age”?

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Off topic: the design of this site is very confusing. Each section with its heading and text body as a separate card, with the heading in the same color as links are. It makes it look like each card is a summary of a separate blog post or article. Also with the way the background image is static like that.

    Need to rethink that design from a reading perspective.