Called Do Not Track Kids, the legislation would bar Web sites outright from using kids' data to target ads to them until they are 17.
He means the speech recognition technology wasn't built on kids' data.
So yes, Facebook is inevitably tracking kids' data without parental consent.
And since apps collect kids' data (which hopefully will soon expire), they can perhaps return a favor by making stronger privacy settings default for their young users.
But that seems crazy to me – most parents I know err on the side of being almost overly paranoid when it comes to protecting their kids' data.
Starting now, every parent must begin asking questions and call for transparency about the school and corporate access to kids data and its security.
Kids' data must be handled carefully, per the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act — parents' consent must be obtained, and parents must also be able to review or delete that data.
Though it does go on to say it has added "small additional information" to its privacy policy after the report queried whether its wording might leave it open for the company to use kids' data for marketing purposes.
A report by England's children's commissioner has raised concerns about how kids' data is being collected and shared across the board, in both the private and public sectors.
