• Here’s looking at you, kid: the child-cam scam


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    Here’s looking at you, kid: the child-cam scam

    By Brian Livingston

    It’s terrible when no one is paying attention to you. But it’s much worse when someone is paying attention to you whom you don’t WANT to be paying attention to you.

    Around the world, millions of nursery schools, daycare centers, and private homes have installed “child cams.” These are intended to allow parents to see what their kids and caregivers are doing at daycare, how their infants are sleeping in a crib room, and so on. Many of the systems allow the video to be viewed from a distance across the Internet.

    Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.8.0 (2021-03-01).