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#Lego made a Video to explain to kids why they track them. How do you feel about this?

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  • Oh, nice and educational (26%, 90 votes)
  • WTF that’s damn creepy 🤬 (73%, 246 votes)
336 voters. Poll end: 11 months ago

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Gert-Jan Kroese
Gert-Jan Kroese
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I believe every website that uses #trackers to provide #pii to feed the #adtech beast should provide its visitors with such simple tutorial videos. An important first step in getting people to start understanding the 'cost' they pay for that wonderful, free to use online #software
#software #adtech #trackers #pii
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dexternemrod
dexternemrod
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Children below a certain age should not be allowed to use the intrnet without their parents.

Besides that, the video is to positive. There is always the risk for an incident or change of the privacy policy ...

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CerebralHawks
CerebralHawks
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It’s certainly educational. But it uses terms and concepts kids won’t understand, so they’ll ignore it, and just pay attention to the animation.

If LEGO is being honest, then it’s fine. Cookies and trackers in and of themselves are not bad, they’re just often misused. If an honest site or company is using them correctly, they aren’t harmful. We’re just so jaded by companies that started out good and went bad in this regard.

So, is LEGO lying?

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Vanilla Thunder
Vanilla Thunder
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I think the Video is misleading. The image of putting the child's personal data into a vault may imply they are not given away. Quite easy to understand for a child: Vault = Safe and Secure. But a closer look to the Privacy Policy shows, that thats not true and everything that prevents lego to give away the personal data is opt-out.
Just a short excerpt as an example:
"As noted above, we disclose certain information (such as your email address) to Google (to opt-out...)"
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mercurial idiot
mercurial idiot
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I think it's good that the children can now know why Lego wants their data, which would help fight misinformation and stuff but the video is too fun. It makes it seem like it's all pros and dismisses the cons because "oh it's safe with us, don't worry".
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Didi
Didi
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I think the animator(s)/writer(s) understood it's not real, that's why the clothes joke at the end (like the emperor has no clothes).
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onkelmorfar
onkelmorfar
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-lowering children's defenses on the Internet is really creapy
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George Raptis
George Raptis
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Kids nowadays are being constantly exposed to things they should not. They should be protected at all costs.

I can say at the very least that being transparent on how personal data are used (on any website/app/service) is, rather, mandatory in my opinion.

Update:

By scrolling through the comment section a bit more carefully, this "educational" video is misleading, using false claims, with children, that are super easy to convince, being the victims.

This is bad.

This entry was edited (11 months ago)
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PerlPlayer
PerlPlayer
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Lego, a small, "friendly" family business that has more lawyers than ideas and quality management. Just to keep his monopoly using lawsuits against alternative sellers. 😑
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