When I tell parents that secretly spying on their kids' internet activities is not a great look, they ask me "Well, what SHOULD I do?"
There is no all-purpose parenting answer, but this report from Malwarebytes outlines many of the key considerations: https://www.malwarebytes.com/resources/attachments/parenting-and-growing-up-online-10-2022.pdf
Please forgive the self-promotion but I have some thoughts on what parents can do. A few years back, I wrote a book called "Raising Cyberethical Kids," which is available here:
https://link.cybertraps.com/RCK_PB
My main take-aways are that parents can prevent the majority of problems by: 1) delaying access to technology; 2) having frank conversations with children about the risks of online activity at an early age; and ... 1/2
3) conducting reasonable, age-appropriate supervision (not "surveillance") which they also discuss with their children.
I believe that secret or hidden surveillance in the home undermines trust, normalizes surveillance by existing power structures, and generally violates fundamental ethical principles. 2/2
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