[Air-L] New article: Extraction-by-design in baby-tracking apps (open access)

[Andrea Lachmansingh]

Dear all,

I am pleased to share that our article, Extraction-by-design: Auditing infrastructures of datafication in baby-tracking apps, has been published open-access in Internet Policy Review: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/datafication-baby-tracking-apps

Led by Dr. Jennifer Pybus, Canada Research Chair in Data, Democracy, and AI at the Department of Politics, York University, this article presents our mixed-method audit of 14 of the most downloaded Android baby-tracking apps in the EU, examining how sensitive health data about (un)born babies, pregnancies, and family caregiving routines is shared with third parties, often without meaningful consent. We introduce the concept of "extraction-by-design" to describe how routine caregiving inputs are captured and repurposed for behavioural profiling and monetisation, and call for policy interventions that treat infant data privacy as a matter of collective public interest.

Best,
Andrea Lachmansingh



Andrea Lachmansingh (she/her)

Ph.D. Candidate

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship – Award Recipient

Department of Politics

York University