Tonight on Tech Live, a father says that his teenage son does not have the same rights as an adult because teens are not as mature and could get themselves into trouble on-line more easily. Using a system called eblaster he monitors every move, reads every email, watches every IM chat.
Comments
Steven - January 12, 2003 7:34 pm
It WOULD be an invasion of privacy, but if you have a 10 year old kid in your house with full-access to high-speed internet, it's your job as a parent to know what they're using it for.
Stephen DesRoches - January 13, 2003 12:03 pm
Job or not, this is extreme. It's one thing to look at the history or have a system that watches urls but it's another to have every key stroke emailed to parent when in fact the parent need somebody to be watching them.
Although this doesn't affect me in anyway, I was so angry listening to this guy talk the way he did as if he was God of the internet and anybody that used it.
It was an issue of "Total Power Control", look what I can do.
Andrew - January 13, 2003 9:42 pm
If I had a child I would not monitor their internet activities unless I was suspicious of them doing something that could get them in trouble. IE: giving away personal information to people on a chat. I wouldn't care so much about looking at the odd nudie pic or the love emails to some one 5 provinces away.
But as a parent you have to trust your child and let them make decisions for them selves.
a suspicious teen - June 14, 2004 4:57 pm
This is exactly what I suspect my parents are using on me. I know for a fact that they are tapping the phone when I talk with my boyfriend, and it seems like something they'd do. They don't trust me with him, and I am very offended. We both are not religious, but have very high moral guidelines, and know right from wrong.
I just wish they'd trust both of us to make the right decisions in the long run. We have made mistakes in the past, like talking on the phone when we're not supposed to, but I wish they'd trust us more.
Besides just that, I'm 15 and know how to avoid things like porn and other innapropriate content, and would never seek it. If they think I'm doing that, they're really out of their minds. I wouldn't mind it so much if they'd tell me that they're doing it, but they prefer to sneak around behind my back.
keylogger king - November 9, 2004 6:09 am
Hey,all you people are nuts!!!Keyloggers are the most beautiful things ever invented in this world!!!With them,you are the king of the internet!!!LOL!!!!!KEYLOGGERS RULE THE WOLRD!!!
jay - January 15, 2006 12:50 pm
The absolute, pure Moron that believes any unemancipated teeneger living in his/her parents household has the right to violate their parents trust is absurd!!! The advent of the Internet, what the majority of teenagers engage in this day (Thank you Bill "No Integrity" Clinton) lies, cheating etc. is unacceptable. I FEEL BAD FOR THE FEW TEENAGERS; ALSO YOUNG ADULTS WHO DO NOT DESERVE TO BE SPIED ON, BUT ONCE YOU VIOLATE THE DECISIONS OF YOUR PARENTS AND ARE CAUGHT IT SHOULD BE TWICE AS HARD FOR YOU TO GET BACK INTO "BEING TRUSTED" Basically, Kids (and you are Kids until you can support yourself, that means paying ALL the bills; car insurance, rent/mortgage, utilities, food) You have NO Rights!!! (Or in some liberal households it should be very, very, limited) Parents confused??? Spy, Spy and Spy some more.
Ultimately, you are responsible???