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I got stuck with this horrible image of the gut microbiome. I could not it get out of my head, so I am now going to inflict it on your Lordships. We have millions of microbes in our gut, as followers of Tim Spector and ZOE will know. Some of them are good and are helping us, while some are bad and are not helping us. It has taken a lot of research to work out which bugs are which, and how you foster some and get rid of the others. That is also true about education tech. I got to thinking that, if you do not properly monitor and filter what you put into your gut, you end up with not just microbes but nasty parasites that are not doing you any good but sucking out your nutrients, in the same way that these apps are potentially sucking out children’s data without their permission. We have to correct those things, as my noble friend has said.