Re:Business Essentials
by thealistra on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:42AM
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This sounds like fueling anxiety in the kids that they are being watched. Doesn’t sound okay
> kids that they are being watched
Not sure that "kids" is well defined here. But it seems completely normal that "kids" would be watched by their parents.
I realize that the appropriate nature of "watching" is going to change with the age of the "kid", but oversight and watchfulness by a parent shouldn't be viewed as inherently problematic.
Re:Business Essentials
by ryanianian on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:07PM
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> kids that they are being watched
They already are though. Usually by tech companies without the kid's best interests at heart.
Tailor it to the kid. Certain amounts of anxiety in developing minors around surveillance seem healthy, especially given the risks associated with unfettered access to the dangerous fire-hose that is the internet which itself has tracking at every corner.
Re:Business Essentials
by Hackbraten on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:19PM
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Still, lying to your kids is not ok.
If you don’t have software on your router that tracks everything they do, don’t pretend that you have.
Being surveilled is a feeling that sticks. Being tricked, too. Don’t assume your kids will forget eventually.
Unless you're running a MITM proxy for SSL traffic with root certificates installed on the home devices, this statement can not be true. And if you're running such a proxy, you would need to have a guest WiFi for people coming into the house who would like to use internet without installing the certificate. At that point, circumventing the tracking is the matter of connecting to the guest WiFi.
Or go the panopticon route: "I have software on the router that can see everything you do, but I don't usually look at it."