Free to Browse with Bill Budington and Jason Kelley (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
The whole season 3 of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast will be devoted to kids’ and teens’ digital rights and access to information. This is because I’m writing and illustrating a (comic) book about kids’ and teens’ freedom to self-direct their online learning. The book will be called Free to Browse.
What are the main concerns about the newly introduced Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)? What are the stumbling blocks on the way to tech literacy and proficiency? Why, in the 21st century liberal West, do we see so much talent and resources going into surveillance tech and what strategies will today’s young minds pick to survive this phase in the internet’s development? Is it just a phase? To quote my son Simon, "I still find it astonishing that it's a privacy law that kids should not have any privacy”.
For this episode, I sat down with the digital freedoms nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). I hope you enjoy this conversation with Bill Budington, senior staff technologist on EFF's Public Interest Technology team and Jason Kelley, EFF’s associate director of digital strategy.
Resources:
The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People
Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA)
The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps
How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech
Access Denied: Protect Rights - Unblock Children’s Access to Information