Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online. Is It the Best Role Model? The New York Times Natasha Singer and Sapna Maheshwari Google is on a mission to teach children how to be safe online. That is the message behind “Be Internet Awesome,” a...
READ MORETech Industry Lobby Proposes Data Privacy Laws; Critics Call Them Weak Xconomy Bernadette Tansey The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened...
READ MOREChildren spending three hours a day on social media are more likely to be obese The Drum Taruka Srivastav A Cancer Research UK report has revealed that children who spend more than half an hour a day online are 79% more likely to be overweight or...
READ MOREAmazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds Ars Technica Amazon has patented technology that could let Alexa analyze your voice to determine whether you are sick or depressed and sell you products based on your...
READ MORETeenagers Say Gambling Addiction Risks Need More Publicity Casino Guardian Daniel Williams Pupils at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Salisbury, Wilts, have revealed that gambling operators have been literally bombarding them with ads. Some of the...
READ MOREMark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Transform Education. This Town Fought Back. Intelligencer Nick Tabor Last year, several classes in Cheshire, Connecticut’s elementary and middle schools switched to a new classroom model, where lessons were supposed...
READ MOREMeet the 9-Year-Old Telling You What to Wear The Wall Street Journal Ray A. Smith One of fashion’s “It” girls is actually a girl. Not a young woman. Not a teen. A girl. Giana, known to her 22,800 Instagram followers as Dear Giana, is a photogenic...
READ MOREOct. 5, 2018 Facebook Wants Instagram to Know Where You and Your Children Are At All Times – A Dangerous Precedent Statement of Kristen Strader, Campaign Coordinator, Public Citizen’s Commercial Alert Note: Published reports indicate that...
READ MOREPeople of color have the highest obesity rates in the US. Food marketing is part of the problem. Vox Nadra Nittle Think about the last time you saw a commercial for a “health” food — yogurt, Vitaminwater, orange juice. Chances are the star of the...
READ MORESnapchat rolls out self-serve shoppable ads globally The Drum John McCarthy Snapchat has rolled out self-serve shoppable ads to all advertisers, as it looks to up its e-commerce revenues with a multitude of updates. The move shows the company is...
READ MOREInstagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse. The Washington Post Elizabeth Dwoskin Instagram is known for its celebrity posts and photos of enviable vacations. But it has also become a sizable open marketplace for advertising...
READ MORELike the tobacco industry, e-cigarette manufacturers are targeting children The Washington Post Sarah Milov Last week, the Food and Drug Administration described teenage e-cigarette use as an “epidemic,” echoing the firsthand observations of...
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