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Technology & AIAug 19, 2026

Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet.

Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-­mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL…

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