Someone on Twitter wrote that “children’s rights should absolutely override privacy rights” and honestly, that shook me. The reason I care about privacy so much is because I have kids, and I don’t want them to grow up in the kind of world that person would build.

@matthew_d_green As Joachim Türk of the Deutsche Kinderschutz Bund (biggest childprotection org in Germany) put it in our hearing with the German Goverment:
„Privacy is a child’s right, we can not play one right against the other. Every legislation that leads to children feeling surveilled must be rejected“ (freely translated)
Read up here:

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2023/kw09-pa-digitales-928540

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