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Permission systems should not be a stand-in for good parenting. Monitor you children's electronics, educate them on what the important things are and what they
by jbob2000 11y ago
Permission systems should not be a stand-in for good parenting. Monitor you children's electronics, educate them on what the important things are and what they mean.
- Zikes 11y agoEducation and monitoring are important, but they're no good without experience.
- Flimm 11y agoObviously. But how are you supposed to monitor your children's electronics, when they are few good tools to do so, and how are you supposed to educate them, when the technology is designed to obscure the dangers?
- mikeash 11y agoCan you be more specific about what actions one would take as part of "monitor your children's electronics" to prevent these problems?
- on_and_off 11y agoif you just want your toddler to access a couple of apps from your tablet, create a restricted account that can only access these apps.
- mikeash 11y agoWhat if I want something in between locking them down to a couple of apps, and letting them accidentally send contacts to some app maker?
- on_and_off 11y agoIdeally, you should have more granularity in the permissions of restricted accounts, with the option to let the second profile install app but with a prompt for the admin password when a new permission is required or a payment is started. Sadly, AFAIK, there is no way to do that.
- mikeash 11y agoRight, so that's exactly the sort of thing being asked for, and it's what got this annoying/useless "just monitor your kids" response.
- ff7c11 11y agoThe content rating systems should help parents make choices about what apps are acceptable. They should reflect whether the app can record information about the child.