The Fine Line Between Monitoring Your Kids and Spying

The debate was heated: a room full of 4th grade parents in a PTA online safety meeting was equally divided on the issue of whether monitoring interfered with a childs right to privacy. On the one side were parents who advocated the use of all the tech tools at our disposal; on the other were parents who suggested this amounted to nothing less than spying.

Like it or not, todays technology allows you to know virtually everything your child is doing - from recording what she types on a computer (key logging) to tracking texts and receiving transcripts of all her Facebook posts. Indeed, you have the power to know just what your child is saying, doing and -- perhaps -- even t…
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