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Would you read your daughter's diary?
Candy Schulman learned the hard way why you should never read your child’s diary. She might right about you. And it might not be very nice.
Candy gave her 8-year-old a diary. At first, the diary was a shared experience: her little girl would write in it and then read the brief, simple entries aloud to her mom. Then one day, it became private. No more guests in the house of her daughter’s secret thoughts. The diary became a literally locked treasure that Amy quietly kept away from her mom. Candy missed being invited to read the diary but respected Amy’s privacy.
Until the day Amy left her diary sitting unlocked on the table in the living room. The temptation was too much for Mom, who dug in to read her daughter’s juicy secrets.
The explosion of social media has made it easy to share everything we do, think and feel with everyone we know. We can even share these intimate details with people we don’t know: prospective employers, future dates, friends of friends and random strangers.
But should we share all that? What does privacy mean for the Facebook generation?
Roughly the same thing it means to the rest of us, it turns out. A new study from the University of California finds that young people value their online privacy as much as older people do, the New York Times reports.
Everyone has to make personal decisions about how much of themselves to put online. As parents, we have to make those choices for our kids, too.
A dad who tried to snap a cute photo of his (fully-clothed) toddler at a mall is angry that a mall cop told him he couldn’t – because he might be a pedophile.
Mr. Mall Cop, repeat after me – anyone can be a pedophile, but taking a photograph of a fully-clothed child does . . . what? Continue reading »
Think of just one thing you did in your bedroom yesterday that you wouldn’t want anyone else, except maybe your spouse, to see. Now imagine that you found out that your boss and all of your coworkers had the ability to see into your bedroom from the comfort of their own homes at any time, without your knowledge.
Let’s exactly what’s going on in a Philadelphia suburb, except the people being spied on are minors and the peeping toms are their educators. Has your head exploded yet? Continue reading »
A Florida software company is going for the most personal of information – they want your kids’ fingerprints.
It’s supposed to make them safer. Continue reading »
A teacher who was spending the school day online posting vulgar comments on a local newspaper’s website has lost his job. So why is everyone mad at the editor who turned him in to school officials?
Kurt Greenbaum of the St. Louis Post Dispatch e-mailed the school when he noticed the it was the source linked to a commenter who had repeatedly tried posting a dirty word for part of the female anatomy. Continue reading »
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