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Baby’s first surveillance technology
Skip to main content Main content starts here Access the full article View all access options to continue reading this article. Books 1 Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age Amanda Hess Doubleday, 2025. 272 pp. Information & Authors Information Published In Science Volume 388 | Issue 6746 1 May 2025 Copyright Copyright © 2025 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.
Twenty-one books to face the challenges of the new year
A new year awaits those who work for a just society starting from an economic reality or from its fruits, used in a philanthropic form. It is the world that we try to explore and tell about on a weekly basis ProduceWell, the newsletter edited by the writer, dedicated to the world of responsible companies, family and corporate foundations, impact finance and the social economy.
From ChatGPT to crime: how journalists are shaping the debate around AI errors
By Veronica Barassi, Antje Scharenberg, Marie Poux-Berthe, Rahi Patra and Philip Di Salvo European news outlets have slowly started to shed light on the potentially harmful errors of artificial intelligence (AI). But the narratives around these technologies are still dominated by a sensationalist attitude towards the power of AI, which is obscuring other, more critical discourses.
Surveillance, Companionship, and Entertainment: The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines
Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years. Robots have histories that extend far back into the past. Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots all find expression from the human imagination in works and contexts beyond Ovid (43 BCE to 17 CE) and the story of Pygmalion in cultures across Eurasia and North Africa.
Re-counting the Cognitive History of Numerals
Linguistic and cognitive anthropologist Stephen Chrisomalis reckons with numbers and the mind. Those of us who learned arithmetic using pen and paper, working with the ten digits 0–9 and place value, may take for granted that this is the way it’s always been done, or at least the way it ought to be done. But if you think of the amount of time and energy spent in the early school years just to teach place value, you’ll realize that this sort of numeracy is not preordained.
What tech companies know about your kids | Veronica Barassi
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Today's Children Are First Generation of Citizens To Be Datafied From Before Birth
Photo: Margaret Weir/Unsplash Track your period, ovulation, symptoms, moods, and so much more in one beautiful app!” So begins a promotional blurb for Ovia, one of several fertility apps on the market boasting its ability to monitor women’s health and fertility cycles.
Tech Companies Are Profiling Us From Before Birth
Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen.
Chatting With the Dead
In giving voice to the digital ghosts of the deceased, chatbots are trying to succeed where photography and dreams fail. Source images: replika.ai By: Davide Sisto On November 28, 2015, a young Belarusian man died when he was run down by a car in Moscow. His name was Roman Mazurenko and, barely into his 30s, he was already a tech entrepreneur and a legendary figure in the city’s cultural and artistic circles.
Movement cultures and media in grassroots politics
In the past two decades, a rising number of studies have investigated the complex relationship between the media and social movements. Within this body of research, media technologies are considered as fundamental tools for the organization and mobilization of political action, as well as for the construction of resistant identities.
The Human Error in AI and Children's Rights – Child Data Citizen
The Human Error in AI and Children’s Rights On Saturday the 13th of June, I submitted a report titled The Human Error in AI and Children’s Rights as response to the EU White Paper on Artificial Intelligence a European Approach Consultation. My response combines the findings of the Child | Data | Citizen Project with the preliminary observations resulting from my forthcoming project The Human Error Project: AI, Algorithmic Bias and the Failure of Digital Profiling (launch September, 2020).
Veronica Barassi: What tech companies know about your kids
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Data and Citizenship California Tour! – Child Data Citizen
I am delighted to share with you the news that Dr. Lina Dencik (Cardiff University, Data Justice Lab) and I will be on a California speaking tour on Data and Citizenship. “As more and more social activity and human behavior is being turned into data points that can be tracked, collected and analyzed, we need to ask critical questions about the everyday surveillance of citizens’ lives and the emergence of new forms of data governance.
Data Justice for Children – Child Data Citizen
“I don’t understand, I feel so incompetent and frustrated. I have been reading it again and again but fail to understand it. It is clear that the company recognizes that children interact with the virtual assistants or can create their own profiles connected to the adults. Yet I can’t find an exhaustive description or explanation of the ways in which their data is used also in the section on Children’s Data. It seems so general and the responsibility comes all down to me.
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