Ok, so maybe there’s nothing problematic about harvesting data from adults so that advertisers can microtarget us with ads in order to optimize their chances of persuading us to buy. I doubt it, but regardless…
There’s certainly something problematic about harvesting data on children.
Two issues:
First, when it comes to children, talk about consent is silly.
Second, and more important, the persistent harvesting of a child’s data, together with the ways in which such data can now be algorithmically analyzed and the unknown ways in which it may be used and disseminated in the future suggests the possibility that such a child may become entirely transparent to data brokers, advertisers, the government, police departments and anyone else who might purchase such data.
Of course, the child might become the greatest criminal mastermind of their time, but this has to be the case for every such child for this response to get off the ground.
