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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Kids and mobile phones: waiting for the surveillance shoe to drop - Boing Boing

Cory Doctorow at 9:46 AM April 20, 2010

The good folks at the Pew Internet and American Life project have published their latest report, looking at the remarkable transformation that the mobile phone continues to effect on the lives of teenagers.


Will we wake up in 20 years and say, "Christ, how could we have spent all that time talking about how kids were sending each other texts without taking note of the fact that we'd given every teen in America his own prisoner tracking cuff and always-on bug?

Something to mull over.

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