> The kid's right to wander into crazy elsagate videos and have covert online conversations with predators unsupervised is more important than the parent's righ

> The kid's right to wander into crazy elsagate videos and have covert online conversations with predators unsupervised is more important than the parent's right to protect their kid, and Apple is justified in ripping the monitoring capability out of parents' hands? Is that what you're saying? No one is saying that. Just like privacy laws don’t exist to protect encrypted hard drives full of pedophilia. The right to privacy does NOT enable or endorse deviancy or illicit behavior! At all! Privacy is a human right, not an adult right. Kids do deserve to have an assumption that when they are texting with their friends that their parents aren’t watching them. Especially teenagers. What about the young boy in a conservative Christian family who is struggling with his sexual identity? What about the young girl who is trying to learn how to report her abusive family members? These are the reasons why children’s privacy are important. Young people need their own secure places to express themselves and form an identity — that doesn’t happen, thankfully, under parental supervision. That said, of course it’s a parent’s job to protect their children. But spying on a personal device like a cell phone is oppressive and paranoid.