News and Research articles on Baby-tracking applications

Extraction-by-design: Auditing infrastructures of datafication in baby-tracking apps

Jennifer Pybus, York University
Katrina Nicole Matheson, York University
Andrea Lachmansingh, York University
PUBLISHED ON: 27 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2087

Baby-tracking apps promise to help parents, this reveals how baby-tracking apps transform intimate caregiving into a site of cross-border data extraction, profiling, and policy non-compliance.