- Jun 24, 2016
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With technology on its best and highest point, dangers exist everywhere: even online. This sometimes makes parents believe their kids will do stupid things such as meet with strangers or share innapropiate material.
This has been a good marketing strategy for security vendors to sell suites with parental contro, kids controlling modules, etc. Some of them even let you spy on your kids, on their pictures and conversations. Some parents, not knowing the existence of such apps, even grab their kids' phones and scroll through their conversations, social media and photo albums.
This, of course, brings some big controversy: is it okay to spy on your kid "for their own safety"? Are you invading their privacy and personal space? Should parents look at their 14 year-old boy's pictures (you may not like those photos!)? Is there a limit age to which you should control their devices? Only when they're too small?
Some say it's OK to check a kids devices when he's 10..11 years old. Some also sustain that you cannot spy on a teenager (13+) because they're on a special age where they need space and privacy.
What do you think? Do you control your kids in any way?
This has been a good marketing strategy for security vendors to sell suites with parental contro, kids controlling modules, etc. Some of them even let you spy on your kids, on their pictures and conversations. Some parents, not knowing the existence of such apps, even grab their kids' phones and scroll through their conversations, social media and photo albums.
This, of course, brings some big controversy: is it okay to spy on your kid "for their own safety"? Are you invading their privacy and personal space? Should parents look at their 14 year-old boy's pictures (you may not like those photos!)? Is there a limit age to which you should control their devices? Only when they're too small?
Some say it's OK to check a kids devices when he's 10..11 years old. Some also sustain that you cannot spy on a teenager (13+) because they're on a special age where they need space and privacy.
What do you think? Do you control your kids in any way?