The Rise of the Algorithmic Child: Protecting Children in Smart Homes

Abstract Children’s Internet use is often presumed to consist only of popular entertainment activities such as scrolling through social media, playing games, or watching videos, all typically undertaken on personal devices, with safety policy and practice targeted accordingly. But in reality, children’s much more varied, including interactions screenless smart devices the home via third party services outside home. This chapter considers practical implications use, focusing possible security privacy risks well larger ethical questions about datafication childhood.