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These startups grow up into many-headed hydras with a thirst for the most intimate details about our online habits
- Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14
  
  I agree, and with the push for innovation and the "next big thing," we often give up privacy and information without even realizing it.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I agree, and with the push for innovation and the "next big thing," we often give up privacy and information without even realizing it.</div>
  
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I often come across people willing trade privacy for convenience.
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when you are not paying for something, then you are the product.
- Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14
  
  We see this a lot with educational spaces. They are free (so teachers are apt to try them to save money that they don't have in their classroom budget) but then forget what they are trading: the eyes of their students, and advertising dollars.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">We see this a lot with educational spaces. They are free (so teachers are apt to try them to save money that they don't have in their classroom budget) but then forget what they are trading: the eyes of their students, and advertising dollars.</div>
  
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we need to be able to see the damage we are causing as a first step toward solving it. Words, like the ones you are reading now, often are not enough.
- Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14
  
  But I also like to think that, as a teacher, direct lessons around privacy and digital lives can make a difference, if not immediate, then long-term. I remain hopeful of that.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">But I also like to think that, as a teacher, direct lessons around privacy and digital lives can make a difference, if not immediate, then long-term. I remain hopeful of that.</div>
  
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First, our collective move away from open standards and decentralisation means that choosing to use a different service involves significant social impact. Second, even if an alternative does rear its head, the ending is all-too-familiar: it is acquired and swallowed by one of the huge incumbents
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Each subsidiary company is branded differently, so we often forget where all the data streams are ultimately heading.
- Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14
  
  So true.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">So true.</div>
  
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We are training for compliance rather than creating an informed, questioning citizenry.
- Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14
  
  Again, another teaching moment that often gets lost. What about teaching how to read "terms of service" agreements? Eh?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Again, another teaching moment that often gets lost. What about teaching how to read "terms of service" agreements? Eh?</div>
  
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For the next generation, will they know the difference between the Internet and Google or Facebook? Will they, to put it bluntly, know the difference between a public good and a private company?
- Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14
  
  Here is the question that haunts me as a teacher, and as a parent.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Here is the question that haunts me as a teacher, and as a parent.</div>
  
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