Beeban Kidron's "Users" exposes how tech companies profit from harming children online
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Rachel Sylvester
Summary
Beeban Kidron's book "Users" exposes how tech companies deliberately design platforms to exploit children, collecting their data and exposing them to harmful content including pornography. Drawing on real-time evidence from avatars based on real young people, Kidron reveals the stark and immediate dangers children face online. The crossbench peer and film-maker calls for urgent political reform to hold tech billionaires accountable for profiteering from children's online experiences.
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Twitter / XBeeban Kidron's "Users" exposes how tech companies profit from harming children onlineobserver.co.ukKey quotes
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hard, irrefutable, real-time evidence – of what children encountered online, information that is fiercely guarded by the tech companies
a rallying cry for political reform
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