Parenting, privacy and the future

    elevenM Principal Melanie Marks reflects on the need for better public engagement on the future of privacy, much as is emerging around climate change. Sitting at a symposium on children’s online privacy a little over a week ago, the footsteps of a thousand marching children ran through my head. Just streets away from the event was the Melbourne base of the national climate change rallies. In the room was an inspiring group of academics, regulators and policy makers, grappling with the future of surveillance and profiling. Both social issues, concerning the future of humanity. I pondered why the climate rally had delivered so many to the streets now, when we have known about climate change for years? And I concluded that what has changed is that we can see it now, and we are parents. We see the world through our kids’ eyes – strangely short seasons, farmers without water and […]