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Echo dot/radiation exposure for kids

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Stormy900 · 12/12/2023 19:33

AIBU to be worried about this?
10 year old and 12 year d DC would both love one for Christmas, for their bedrooms.
They want it for music, asking questions, audible stories, etc.
If they were radiation free I'd get them without hesitation.
But I'm honestly genuinely worried about increasing their exposure to radiation when using these on top of already being exposed to high levels from our Internet WiFi.
I read online that an echo dot should be used several meters away from the child at all times to minimise risks from radiation exposure, but the distance given on the echo dot small print safety info is bigger than the size of our house, let along the size of their rooms!
Yet everyone I know seems to have one and noone seems to care about the radiation.
So AIBU???
Any experts on this out there?

OP posts:
Cerealkiller4U · 14/12/2023 07:41

Usernameundiscovered · 12/12/2023 20:39

And privacy, everyone, even (or especially) children are allowed to not have every minute of every day recorded or listened in on.

Gen alpha and much of gen z have spent their lives being observed and monitored by data collecting bodies and having their lives and personal data gifted to corporations for free by parents and relatives due to our obsession with smart phones and technology.

I miss privacy and want to protect whatever I can of my children's privacy. It worries me when others give it away so freely.

100% agree with you

in America they’re trying to get a law passed that if you’ve used your child’s likeness and received money for it then that money belongs to the child and you’re not allowed to touch it.

this is to stop parents using their child to make money as really anyone under the age of 16 can’t really consent. Why we think putting them on social media is any different

I do not have one photo of my children online. Not one.

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