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Privacy at home
What never goes into a tool: names, schools, photos, other children.
Children's information deserves more protection, not less. Keep names, the school, photos, medical details and anything about other children out of general tools. Describe the situation instead: “a ten-year-old who finds spelling hard”.
Check the tool's minimum age and whether the child should be using it at all. Many services are not designed for children, and the terms say so.
If a child is using a tool, sit with them at first. Not to police, but to show how you check an answer and when you close the lid.
- Describe, do not identify.
- Check minimum ages.
- Sit with them at first.
BEEP / THE MYTH-BUSTER
Names, schools, photos, other people’s children. None of it. Your child did not consent to being training data and cannot.
Try it
Write a one-sentence family rule a child could repeat back without rolling their eyes. Then test it on them, because they will tell you.
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