Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data
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#2Notably Step wouldn’t say whether they were selling data, whereas Greenlight said they weren’t and would remove the part of their privacy policy that reserves their right to do so in the future.
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#3If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account.
Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adults.
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#5If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account. Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adults.
Sure, now lets try to apply that in practice with a kid angry at you for years.
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#6If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account. Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adults.
You're kid will be very upset when they are slowly excluded from all of their friend groups when noone wants to email or text just one member of the group. Sad reality of it.
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#7shocking
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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#8What does a kid need a special debit card for? When they’re old enough to get a job they can just get a regular bank account.
Re: Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data
#9If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account. Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adults.
You're kid will be very upset when they are slowly excluded from all of their friend groups when noone wants to email or text just one member of the group. Sad reality of it.
Hopefully my kid(s) will be the one to convince their friends to use better communication apps. Perhaps when the kids are younger before they get phones, I can convince their friends' parents to use the better platforms.
Re: Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data
#10If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account. Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adults.
Sure, now lets try to apply that in practice with a kid angry at you for years.
> Sure, now lets try to apply that in practice with a kid angry at you for years.
That's called "being a parent" in my circle? I have a toddler that loves to throw the "you're not my friend!" at me when I cut off the TV and tell her it is time for dinner.
I never had a cell-phone until 17, despite all my friends having had theirs as early as the middle school years. Never mattered much in my case. I didn't have an X-Box 360 with Halo 2 and online gaming despite many of my peers having had that. Not sure why this is being seen as a "must have."