Parental Spyware: Protection or Invasion?

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The Undercover Parent

Harlan Coben’s article, The Undercover Parent (2008), claims that keeping an eye on your kids with spyware isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I agree with his argument, because without any sort of online monitoring, your child could get into serious trouble.

“First, we’ve all read about the young boy unknowingly conversing with a pedophile…”(par. 8) When you’re chatting online, you have no idea who you may actually be talking to. It could be someone your age, or a 35 year old creep. If this boy’s parents were to show him the real dangers of the internet, and or place spyware on his computer/device, he probably wouldn’t have thought to talk to anybody that he didn’t know.

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