In britain, parents will have to consent to the data being taken and being used for various purposes. In well run countries that are democratic, as long as we keep an eye on how this data is being used I think we should be fairly safe. But that may not be true everywhere. You can't have a revolution in personalized and without personalized data. That's no whay round it.
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