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How and why does your kids devices have access to your credit card info?

• flipgimble 6y ago
  I could give you a quick example but do you expect the answer to this repeated question changing the fact that this is a real issue for responsible and engaged parents? I was going to write more details, but I don't feel comfortable recounting other people's personal details. I could anonymize it but that would make it sound contrived. As someone who's daily job is consulting and helping solve tough technical problems for non-technical clients, I feel for these parents being overwhelmed. I can see how the technology is not always on their side when considering the marketing towards their kids and the type of e-commerce dark patterns.
  • ryneandal 6y ago
    > I feel for these parents being overwhelmed. I concur. I work with ACLs and permissions on a daily basis, my wife doesn't. This affinity for permissions structures rears it's head when she is entirely frustrated when setting up whitelisting for my daughter's MS account.
• ryneandal 6y ago
  Do you have children and/or have used most tech company's family account offerings? Apple, for an example, has a "master" account which controls billing. All purchases made on any associated family account are routed through this master account. My wife's purchases don't require approval, but all child accounts do. Microsoft's account structuring is very similar.
  • KindOne 6y ago
    No children and no family accounts. Every account I own is only used by me.