Spyware for Babies
Baby monitor companies like Nanit are deploying AI-powered cameras to track infants' speech, motor skills, and development around the clock. Nanit recently raised $50 million to expand this continuous health surveillance and extend it into early adolescence.
Why this matters: Babies cannot consent to being watched. Neither can toddlers. Their parents are being sold round-the-clock AI surveillance as a safety feature, but what is really being built is a detailed developmental record of a child, collected from the bedroom, from birth. That data is enormously sensitive. It covers health, behavior, and physical development over years. The companies holding it have investors to answer to, not the kids. Worth asking: where does that data go, who can buy it, and what happens to it when the child grows up.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · AI governance · Policy
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