Insights from an Ethical Technologist to help parents raise digitally sovereign kids.
What I'm surfacing right now — deconstructions of the platforms, threats, and machinery shaping your family's digital life.
School monitoring software is tuned to a neurotypical baseline. For neurodivergent kids, normal existence generates alerts: literal searches, task-switching, repeated questions. The flags aren't accidents — they're the system working as designed.
Snapstreaks, Snap Scores, and a map showing who's hanging out where. Internal court documents show Snap knew exactly what its design does to teen mental health. Here's the machinery, and what parents can do.
Your car collects more data than your phone—location history, voice commands, driving behavior, even cabin audio. GM was caught selling it to insurers without consent. Here's what your vehicle knows about your family and what you can do about it.
Let's face it. Instagram isn't a photo app. It's a gallery where everyone is both curator and exhibit—and your child is learning to perform a life they aren't living. Here's what's happening underneath.
The digital landscape is constantly shifting. Here's the latest, decoded — and what it means for your family.
Roblox averaged 127 million daily users in 2025, and nearly three quarters of the verified ones are minors. It reads every chat, records voice, and now scans faces to unlock chat. Court settlements required it to collect even more. The safety system and the surveillance are the same machine.
What happens after a monitoring alert gets generated about your child? There are at least three separate files, three sets of rules, and one of them lives in a company's database rather than your school. FERPA gives you the right to look at the record and argue with it, not to delete it.
You can change your child's password, school, and email address. You can't change their genome. Between the newborn heel prick, prenatal screening, and the gifted ancestry kit, most of it gets collected before they can speak, and the law leaves a gap that lasts decades.
The MarkUp has reported Doctoralia — one brand of a booking company operating across thirteen countries under thirteen privacy laws — sent information about their medical appointments, including the specialties and names of doctors, to social media companies including TikTok, Google, and LinkedIn.
School monitoring software is tuned to a neurotypical baseline. For neurodivergent kids, normal existence generates alerts: literal searches, task-switching, repeated questions. The flags aren't accidents — they're the system working as designed.
The device form you signed at back-to-school night authorized software that reads your kid's searches, emails, and documents — 24/7, including at home, on a record your family can't see or correct. Here's what it actually said.
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