Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Inside the Decades-Long Fight to Protect Your Children’s Data From Advertisers

Stephen Downes

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I've said before that advertising is the original fake news. This article documents a decades-long effort to keep advertising away from children online, chronicling the work of Kathryn Montgomery and Jeff Chester to prevent "online playgrounds populated by the likes of Chester Cheetah and Ronald McDonald." Now they are working to prevent things like eavesdropping on children through the internet of things.

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