Tell Alexa You’re Busy Driving

Tell Alexa You’re Busy Driving

The Amazon Echo Auto promises only further distraction in a place where distraction is deadly: behind the wheel.

By Andrew McDiarmid | December 10, 2019 | Automation, Cognition, Safety, Transportation | Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo Auto, Car Accidents, Cell Phones, Digital Assistant, Distracted Driving, Driving, Multitasking, Nationwide Insurance, NHTSA, Traffic Safety

Podcast #32: Josh Golin on Marketing to Kids

Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.

By Mo Lotman | June 19, 2019 | Advertising, Community, Culture, Education, Ethics, Family, Law, Media, Podcasts, Privacy, Psychology | Activism, Advertising, Alexa, Amazon, Baby Einstein, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Children, Citizenship, Commercials, Community, Consumerism, Critical Thinking, Digital Nanny, Disney, Echo Dot for Kids, Ed-Tech, Edward Markey, Environment, Fast Food, Hello Barbie, Internet, iPads, Josh Hawley, Marketing, Mattel, Movement Building, Obesity, Pornography, Schools, Scree-Free Week, Screen Time Action Network, Screens, Smartphones, surveillance, Technology in Schools, TV, Violence, YouTube

Your Portal to Privacy Invasion

In the wake of ongoing privacy breaches, releasing Facebook’s newest offering, a videophone with an auto-tracking camera, takes a lot of chutzpah.

By Michael Bugeja | November 1, 2018 | Media, Privacy | Alexa, Amazon, Data Breach, Facebook, Hacking, Interpersonal Divide, Michael Bugeja, Portal, Privacy, surveillance