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July 29, 2019 04:55 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ORyn-dXBgm4/boris-the-baby-bot.html
Crowdfunding a picture book about resisting surveillance
Murray Hunter writes, "I'm a digital rights activist in South Africa - I've written and illustrated a silly, subversive kid's book about the Big Data industry, and a squiggly, wiggly robot sent out to track and profile all the babies. It's not an 'eat your vegetables' kind of book: all I wanted to do was tell a story that could delight young kids (ages 3-5) while also inviting them to imagine for the first time a secret and hidden world of data collection. I don't think it's been done yet, and - well, why not? I've just launched a crowdfunding campaign to publish it in hardcover and thought it might pique the interest of a few happy mutants. Read the rest
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ORyn-dXBgm4/boris-the-baby-bot.html
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