Sharenthood : Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online

From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school's digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise children's privacy online. Our children's first digital footprints are made before they can walk-even before they are born-as parents use fertility apps to aid conception,...

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Main Author: Plunkett, Leah A. (auth)
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Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
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