Bebo kids will value privacy when they see adults do too | Comment is free | The Guardian
To remain safe and free, we must raise the next generation to understand real risk and security. Let’s give pocket money based on how many CCTVs our kids can photograph on the way to school. Let’s assign kids to survey every local merchant with CCTV aimed at a public road and demand an accounting of their data-protection practices and a rationale for spying on their neighbours. Instead of installing creepy snoopware on school networks, let’s train our kids to communicate in unbeatable, cryptographically secured anonymity. Instead of campaigns to warn kids off Bebo or Facebook, let’s get them browser tools that render visible the potential privacy threats on each page. Let’s replace the snoopy phones that let us spy on their every movement with phones loaded with software that tells them every time their personal information leaks out.
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