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"The idea that a young teen has a right to privacy online is a joke"

5 points by reinhardt 15y ago

reinhardt 15y ago
Anyway, I know my children's online history. I can see every word she's ever typed, every keystroke she's ever sent across her laptop, regardless of whether she was at home or at a friend's house. If my daughter were to leave school in the middle of the day for any reason, as soon as her cell phone's GPS footprint triggered outside the normal 3 mile radius she's supposed to be in I get a text alert. (whether someone thinks they're smart enough to disable the gps or not) Then I can push a few buttons and turn on her phone's speaker, track her GPS location in real-time. I make it a point to know how to get to my child better than any police could dream of in this day and age. Nothing short of an FBI swat team find my child better than I can. I could make a call to 911 and tell the police turn-by-turn directions to where she was within about 500 feet. I can do the same with her laptop. I can remote activate the web camera, track the ISP node the laptop is closest to - within about one mile and constantly record what happens on the screen if I need to. Call me over-protective if you want, but I know what the technological capabilities of the bad people are because we use them too in our industry, though for different purposes. Is he just bragging or are all these SOP in this line of business?
- talmand 15y ago
  Don't know if he's bragging or not but all that technology is useless. If she didn't want to be tracked or if bad guys got her that didn't want to be tracked they sure as hell wouldn't be lugging all that highly trackable technology as well. Geez, anybody who watches TV or movie thrillers knows this by now.
  - nmridul 15y ago
    Easier to just leave the phone in the classroom and go watch the movie or hangout with friends. And by the time the classes are over, come pick it up and go back home as usual. The dad thinks the daughter is at school.
acqq 15y ago
Background: http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/facebook-dad-says-hed-shoot-his-daughters-laptop-again/ http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/facebook-dad-says-hed-sho...

5 points by reinhardt 15y ago

Anyway, I know my children's online history. I can see every word she's ever typed, every keystroke she's ever sent across her laptop, regardless of whether she was at home or at a friend's house. If my daughter were to leave school in the middle of the day for any reason, as soon as her cell phone's GPS footprint triggered outside the normal 3 mile radius she's supposed to be in I get a text alert. (whether someone thinks they're smart enough to disable the gps or not) Then I can push a few buttons and turn on her phone's speaker, track her GPS location in real-time. I make it a point to know how to get to my child better than any police could dream of in this day and age. Nothing short of an FBI swat team find my child better than I can. I could make a call to 911 and tell the police turn-by-turn directions to where she was within about 500 feet. I can do the same with her laptop. I can remote activate the web camera, track the ISP node the laptop is closest to - within about one mile and constantly record what happens on the screen if I need to. Call me over-protective if you want, but I know what the technological capabilities of the bad people are because we use them too in our industry, though for different purposes. Is he just bragging or are all these SOP in this line of business?

talmand 15y ago
Don't know if he's bragging or not but all that technology is useless. If she didn't want to be tracked or if bad guys got her that didn't want to be tracked they sure as hell wouldn't be lugging all that highly trackable technology as well. Geez, anybody who watches TV or movie thrillers knows this by now.
- nmridul 15y ago
  Easier to just leave the phone in the classroom and go watch the movie or hangout with friends. And by the time the classes are over, come pick it up and go back home as usual. The dad thinks the daughter is at school.

acqq 15y ago

Background: http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/facebook-dad-says-hed-shoot-his-daughters-laptop-again/ http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/facebook-dad-says-hed-sho...