{"id":250,"date":"2007-10-23T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/10\/23\/childrens-privacy\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T14:24:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:24:26","slug":"childrens-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/10\/childrens-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have chil\u00addren, or an interest in pri\u00advacy, spend the time and watch the video of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privcom.gc.ca\/index.php\/2007\/10\/21\/how-childrens-sites-see-your-kids-as-marketing-goldmines\/\">Pro\u00adfess\u00ador Valer\u00adie Steeves dis\u00adcuss\u00ading how chil\u00addren\u2019s web sites mon\u00adit\u00ador their vis\u00adits<\/a>. It\u2019s scary. [Link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/2315\/196\/\">Michael\u2019s Geist\u2019s blog<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>After see\u00ading this, I won\u00adder why the schools here don\u2019t teach more about pri\u00advacy. When we were last in Aus\u00adtralia, vis\u00adit\u00ading friends, I noticed that one friend, whose chil\u00addren are roughly the same age as mine, had two pieces of paper with hand\u00adprints on the fridge. It turns out they are told about pri\u00advacy in school, start\u00ading at age 5, and these hand\u00adprints are remind\u00aders of that injunc\u00adtion about pri\u00advacy. The word\u00ading on the paper was instructive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Respect Pri\u00advacy<\/p>\n<p>Name ___ is special<\/p>\n<p>Every hand\u00adprint is unique. Per\u00adson\u00adal inform\u00ada\u00adtion is worth tak\u00ading care of. Keep this hand\u00adprint in a safe&nbsp;place.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacy.vic.gov.au\">www.privacy.vic.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple, as befits young chil\u00addren, and the hand\u00adprint with its tact\u00adile mes\u00adsage and remind\u00ader of a child\u2019s unique\u00adness struck me as a good idea. We need to be more aware of pri\u00advacy and its import\u00adance in gen\u00ader\u00adal, and espe\u00adcially for those not yet old enough to make their own informed decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have chil\u00addren, or an interest in pri\u00advacy, spend the time and watch the video of Pro\u00adfess\u00ador Valer\u00adie Steeves dis\u00adcuss\u00ading how chil\u00addren\u2019s web sites mon\u00adit\u00ador their vis\u00adits. It\u2019s scary. [Link from Michael\u2019s Geist\u2019s blog.] After see\u00ading this, I won\u00adder why the schools here don\u2019t teach more about pri\u00advacy. When we were last in Aus\u00adtralia, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/10\/childrens-privacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cChildren\u2019s Privacy\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}