Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far
- Written by Rebecca Williamson, Research Officer, Australian National University
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Sydney Morning Herald reporter Jacqueline Maley evoked the spectre of the Orwellian surveillance state recently when discussing how library staff had been implicated in the ParentsNext program. Maley reported that private providers contracted to run the program phoned libraries or local pools to check on...