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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Spying on your family made easy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Technology gives us the tools to be a pretty good spy.
Do you want to spy on your spouse or a child while they’re at the computer? Programs like this can do the job - hiding themselves and taking note of what is said in e-mails and text messages. That’s a single example. Use Google to search - parental software control. You’ll find screen after screen full of programs eager to spy for you.
Do you want to know what’s going on with a child’s cellular phone? Here’s Radar, a service that will send you a message each time there is a call.
Over the years I’ve often had e-mails from parents asking how to spy on a child’s computer habits. And - as you’ve seen - there are ways to do it. It feels wrong to me, yet I also understand the urge and maybe even the need at times.
It’s hard to know what’s right. But I do know this. It would be easy for a parent to cede the responsibility for being a parent to a service or a chunk of software. To my way of thinking that’s dangerous.
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