New research shared in a BBC Ideas film asks is it OK to track your kids?

Date Published: 08.08.2024

Wadham Fellow, Ekaterina Hertog, asks what impact monitoring our kids’ locations and online activity is having on their childhoods in this new BBC Ideas film.

New research by Ekaterina Hertog, Fellow of Wadham College and Associate Professor of AI and Society, Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, and Netta Weinstein, Professor of Clinical and Social Psychology, University of Reading, explore how digital monitoring is changing our lives with parents and kids in this BBC Ideas film. As part of her research, Professor Hertog interviewed dozens of teenagers, many of whom were introduced to her by Wadham's Access Team, about how they feel about location tracking.

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