Unpopular opinion: Parents monitoring kids' social media while letting them use surveillance-based AI is missing the bigger privacy threat. Social media: What they SHARE with others AI: What they THINK in private One is performative. One is intimate. #DataPrivacy #AskSafely

Age 16-17: "Every AI conversation is a choice: convenient but surveilled, or paid but private. Neither is wrong, just know what you're choosing." Start the conversation early. Adjust as they grow.

Age-appropriate AI privacy talk: Age 9-12: "AI is like a really smart robot that remembers everything you tell it unless we teach it to forget." Age 13-15: "Free AI tools make money by using your questions to train smarter AI. That's the business model." (cont. in comments)

Does this have identifying info? Would I be okay if this trained a public AI model? If no to #2, don't upload it.

Before your kid uploads a file to AI: Ask: "Does it have personal info?" Names? ✋ Photos? ✋ Addresses? ✋ School info? ✋ 40% of files uploaded to AI contain personal data. 67% happen through unmanaged personal accounts. Two questions before upload: #SafeAI #Parenting

Even "encrypted" AI has fundamental vulnerabilities. This is why data minimization matters. The data you never collect can't be stolen. Privacy-by-design > security-by-promise. Source: NC State University

New hardware vulnerability = AI privacy nightmare GATEBLEED attack discovered: Hackers can expose AI training data by exploiting hardware. Can't be fixed without redesigning chips (years away). The finding: "Hardware sits beneath all privacy guarantees."

"Free" just means you're paying a different way—and often a way you didn't agree to. Teach kids to ask: "If I'm not paying money, what AM I paying?" That's digital literacy that matters.

We're teaching kids the wrong lesson: "Technology is free! Just use it!" Should be: "Technology has costs. Know what you're paying." Sometimes you pay with money. Sometimes you pay with attention. Sometimes you pay with privacy. Sometimes you pay with psychological wellbeing.

Only one respects that some conversations should stay private. Your family deserves the friend who forgets.

"Data amnesia" explained in one analogy: Traditional AI = A friend who records every conversation, keeps notes, and shares them with others to "learn from you." Data amnesia AI = A friend who listens, helps, and forgets the conversation happened. Both can help with your problem.

Each one collecting data differently. Awareness = first step to protection.

Pop quiz for your teen: "Which of your apps use AI?" Hint: Way more than they think. Instagram? AI. Snapchat? AI. Google search? AI. Homework helper? AI. Phone keyboard predictions? AI.

Even "privacy-focused" companies cave to growth pressure. The lesson? Privacy-as-feature can disappear overnight. Privacy-as-architecture can't. Choose tools where privacy isn't optional—it's how the system works. #AIPrivacy #Claude

Claude's privacy bait-and-switch: September 2025: Anthropic changed Claude from "privacy-by-default" to "opt-out if you remember." What was automatic protection became buried setting. #AskSafely #PrivateAI #EthicalAI #EasyAI

Clarity is the enemy of exploitation. Demand better. Your family deserves policies a 10th grader can understand.

They change terms quietly and count on you not noticing. This isn't accidental. It's strategic. Because if you actually understood what you were agreeing to, you might say no.

The uncomfortable truth: AI companies don't want you to read the privacy policy. They want you to click "agree." They write policies in legal language that takes a law degree to parse. They bury the important stuff in linked sub-policies. #DataPrivacy #PrivacyPolicy #AskSafely

❌ "We have nothing to hide" ✅ Privacy ≠ hiding. Privacy = control over your own data ❌ "They wouldn't use children's data" ✅ Stanford found most AI companies aren't excluding kids' data from training Time to update your assumptions.

AI privacy myths parents believe: ❌ "Deleting the chat means it's gone" ✅ Most keep data 30 days to 5 years after "delete" ❌ "My kid uses school-approved AI, it's safe" ✅ Check the school's data agreement—often shockingly broad