Introducing Our New Surveillance Self-Defense Guide: Online Privacy for Parents and Youth
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new guide called 'Online Privacy for Parents and Youth' as part of its Surveillance Self-Defense series. The resource aims to help families navigate online privacy in practical terms, and arrives as state and local governments weigh legislation that could restrict young people's internet access.
Why this matters: Kids and teenagers have privacy interests too, and most tools built to 'protect' them online end up collecting more data than they protect against. Parents are often caught between wanting to keep kids safe and not wanting to turn their devices into surveillance instruments. This guide takes a different approach: it treats privacy as a skill, not a lock. That matters now because lawmakers are pushing age-verification and content-restriction laws that sound protective but often require handing over more personal data just to get online.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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