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RohanGreyFirstPaper 3 - 26 Apr 2013 - Main.RohanGrey
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Children and Freedom | | | Teaching Children to Keep a Secret | |
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< | Consequently, it is important for parents who advocate non-coercive openness to accept that their expectations carry more than the mere reciprocal obligation to tolerate the truth. Instead, a familial culture of sharing requires – perhaps even more than authoritarianism – a general limiting principle under which children can assert and strengthen their privacy rights in preparation for public life while simultaneously preserving the benefits of close integration. In the absence of such a principle, parents may find themselves unintentionally sacrificing a child's privacy interests in order to make it easier to protect them in the short-term. In addition to the immediate risk that a parent's empathy and open-mindedness proves insufficient to engender tolerance, this tradeoff also harms children by denying them critical learning opportunities to identify potentially malevolence requests for information from those in whom they entrust their wellbeing. This sense of judgment is crucial to develop in young children, as ultimately only they will responsible for making sure that their secrets are safe. | >
> | Consequently, it is important for parents who advocate non-coercive openness to accept that their expectations carry more than the mere reciprocal obligation to tolerate the truth. Instead, a familial culture of sharing requires – perhaps even more than authoritarianism – a general limiting principle under which children can assert and strengthen their privacy rights in preparation for public life while simultaneously preserving the benefits of close integration. In the absence of such a principle, parents may find themselves unintentionally sacrificing a child's privacy interests in order to make it easier to protect them in the short-term. In addition to the immediate risk that a parent's empathy and open-mindedness proves insufficient to engender tolerance, this tradeoff also harms children by denying them critical learning opportunities to identify potentially malevolent requests for information from those in whom they entrust their wellbeing. This sense of judgment is crucial to develop in young children, as ultimately only they will be responsible for making sure that their secrets are safe. | | | | |
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< | The challenges associated with respecting a substantive right to children's privacy in the home are further exacerbated by the growth of the net, which offers near-limitless information for children to explore but also tempting new tools through which to conduct surveillance. Information now lives forever, and poor data-protection habits are reinforced by the myriad of unfree software that comprises the average web experience. Thankfully, as Eben pointed out, young children's data is currently of low saleability. But as big data analytics improve and the realm of advertising expands, this may change. | >
> | The challenges associated with respecting a substantive right to children's privacy in the home are further exacerbated by the growth of the net, which offers near-limitless information for children to explore but also tempting new tools through which parents can conduct surveillance. Information now lives forever, and poor data-protection habits are reinforced by the myriad of unfree software that comprises the average web experience. Thankfully, as Eben pointed out, young children's data is currently of low saleability. But as big data analytics improve and the realm of advertising expands, this may change. | | |
Does Privacy + The Internet + The Right To Read = Children's Liberation? |
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