privacy Everyone except Facebook thinks "Instagram for kids" is a bad idea Rob Beschizza

Technology U.S. is investigating claims that TikTok violated children's privacy Xeni Jardin

politics Investigation into TikTok as risk to U.S. children's privacy urged by 4 U.S. senators Xeni Jardin

law FTC fines app TikTok/Musical.ly $5.7 million for child data privacy violations Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets Family puts Ring camera in children's room, discovers that hacker is watching their kids 24/7, taunting them through the speaker Cory Doctorow

law Tiktok took less than a day to settle parents' lawsuit over spying on their kids Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Raffi's new songs about kids, climate emergency, and Greta Thunberg Cory Doctorow

security Apple to limit third-party tracking in children's apps Xeni Jardin

Kids After more than a year of inaction,one of those privacy-leaking kids' smart watches has been recalled in Europe Cory Doctorow

law Verizon/Aol fined $5m for knowingly helping advertisers track children Rob Beschizza

security Vtech covered up a leak of data on 6.3m children and their families, then tried to force us not to sue – the FTC just fined them $0.09/kid Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Kids' smart watches are a security/privacy dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

Business Senate Republicans introduce resolution ensuring ISPs don't need your permission to sell your private data and SSN Cory Doctorow

pokemon go US Senator Al Franken concerned about Pokemon privacy Jason Weisberger

Business Vtech, having leaked 6.3m kids' data, has a new EULA disclaiming responsibility for the next leak Cory Doctorow

President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin

Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons' electronic privacy Alison Macrina and April Glaser

books Taking an active role in our kids' digital lives Sarah Granger

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing