Catching ’Em Young: Gmail For Kids Good Or Bad?
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In the age of high-speed
Where and how do you start making things safer for your children?
Some philosopher said, ‘prepare your children for the road; and not the road for the children’. Yes, it’s a beautiful sentence, but putting it into practice isn’t easy as technology companies are targeting even children now.
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The most recent company to join the bandwagon is Google. Soon, the company may allow
The silver ray of hope, however, is that the company will have to comply by Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) while it is getting the web world ready for teens to come and set up their tents. The
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Though the company is doing its best to ensure that the privacy of children is protected, the ‘safety’ advocates have not been so conducive towards the news.
Google’s measure of expanding its user base is bound to meet with a fair share of irresponsibility both on the front of parents who may not dedicate time to see where their children are headed on the web, and also on part of the company which may somehow use the data for marketing activities. In both cases, children will be the prime target.
Today, with computer and Internet being the most essential needs of any school going child, discretion of usage becomes a heavy decision with power vested in the hands of children. Even if there is a dashboard that provides parents with all kinds of information regarding their kids’ activity online, it should also alert them if the kid spends time on ‘wrong’ websites. With this, again the ball will return to the parents’ court, who will be left with no option but to reduce kid’s ‘computer time.’
With Google opening doors of the
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