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How children intuitively understand surveillance boundaries

I caught my eight-year-old covering the iPad camera with her hand while video chatting with her grandmother and when I asked why she said she wanted to have private thoughts.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Young people may develop privacy instincts as a natural response to growing up under constant digital observation.

Worth thinking about

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