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>There are mountains of evidence demonstrating that people change their behaviors when they know they are being watched... Maybe adults do, but I seriously dou
by bilbo0s 7y ago
>There are mountains of evidence demonstrating that people change their behaviors when they know they are being watched...
Maybe adults do, but I seriously doubt children do.
Maybe some child dev experts on HN could chime in here, but my understanding was that brain development is not complete until well after 18 years in humans. Not only that, but the ability to self regulate is particularly compromised in children.
Now I could be wrong. And, as I said, I welcome the child dev guys to chime in here, but I think these people are literally recording children who, because of human neurobiology, are unlikely to regulate due to the recording.
And I think the people doing the recording know that.
- saagarjha 7y agoChildren know to hide behavior from disapproving adults: they're not as stupid or underdeveloped as you think they are.
- losteric 7y agoKids are naive, not stupid. They will ignore the camera until someone gets caught... from then on Big Brother will be lurking in the shadows of their mind. I grew up in an environment like that, my paranoid parents were a fan of security cameras all over the house because we grew up in a "risky" area. The cameras definitely led to a feeling of being mentally caged in, always being watched and worried about doing something wrong. The Black Mirror "Arkangel" episode is a good commentary on omnipresent childhood surveillance...