Reviewed by Watsachol Narongsaksakul, Illinois State University
Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children is part of a series of publications written by Connected Learning Alliance scholars (2020) addressing algorithms and platforms for children through a power, justice, and equity lens. In a data-driven society, predictive systems and artificial intelligence (AI) functions performing human-like tasks are embedded in digital platforms such as learning management systems, website third-party cookies, and social media. Data including numbers, characters, symbols, images, electromagnetic recorded, sorted, or commodified is not equally represented (e.g., gender, race, power, identity) by governments and private companies, causing discrimination and preferential treatment by identified technologies.