If it can do that it can send back whole conversations as well, but the software company 'does not record childrens names or addresses' ??

They ought to be made an example of if this is true.

"In June, EchoMetrix unveiled a separate data-mining service called Pulse that taps into the data gathered by Sentry software to give businesses a glimpse of youth chatter online. While other services read publicly available teen chatter, Pulse also can read private chats. It gathers information from instant messages, blogs, social networking sites, forums and chat rooms."

Heads should really roll over this one, they get you to pay to be able to sell your kids chat logs. It's absolutely disgusting.

Parents installing such software should take note that it is better to invest in educating your kids than it is to invest in software to police your kids.

If your children are old enough to be online unsupervised then you have to educate them to the point where they are capable of dealing with that responsibility without you or a digital sentry looking over their shoulder all the time.

It's all about trust.