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How tech steals our time — and how to get it back

Jul 26, 2018
A former Googler weighs in on how much time we should spend with technology and how we should make those choices.
A Chinese couple tests the new iPhone 7 during the opening sale launch at an Apple store in Shanghai on September 16, 2016. 
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Designing tech for the most vulnerable users

Jul 25, 2018
“We can kick them off of Twitter," Danah Boyd of Data & Society says. "It's not that hard, but that won't make the problem go away."
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Google's email filtering in the spotlight

Aug 6, 2014
Focus centers on Google's program to scan emails for images of child exploitation.
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New device aims for paranoid-parent market

Jul 10, 2014
Electronics-maker LG causes a stir with a new child-tracking wearable device.

Netflix declares the death of Saturday morning cartoons

Dec 24, 2013
Netflix comes out with its first original kids' program.

For California minors, Internet regrets may be a thing of the past

Sep 24, 2013
A new bill passed in California aims to protect minors from having a permanent record of photos and phrases they might regret.

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The underground child exchange

Sep 12, 2013
A new investigation reveals a network of parents who are offering unwanted children to others via online message boards.

Should parents play NSA to their children's online activities?

Aug 14, 2013
Parents want to make sure their children are safe when using the internet, but at what point does monitoring your kids become needless spying?

Websites accused of collecting kids' online data

Aug 23, 2012
A group of consumer advocate organization says some big name companies are violating kids' online privacy laws.