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AyeletBentleyFirstEssay 5 - 10 Jan 2020 - Main.EbenMoglen
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Mother is Always Watching: Psychological, Sociological, and Privacy Concerns of Surveillance Helicoptering | | | Helicopter parenting took flight simultaneously with the rise of commercial internet providers. The early correlation is likely simply correlation (many trace helicoptering to the 1980s-news coverage of abductions), but overbearing parenting and technology have interacted surveilling children for over a decade. While child trackers existed 10 years ago, today they are built-in the phones teens can’t go anywhere without. T-Mobile has subscriptions to track family members that have over 100,000 subscribers paying $9.99/month. iPhones have this feature for free, decreasing the buy-in cost, and making not tracking more of an opt-out than opt-in. Helicoptering is pervasive and dangerous. | |
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][Researchers of parent surveillance technology have concluded]] that surveillance devices such as baby monitors and internet trackers decrease autonomy and stunt development, the same risks seen in helicoptering generally. Helicopter parenting is linked to prolonged adolescence, anxiety, dependence, and other poor outcomes. Children with helicopter parents become terrified of making mistakes. It is easy to see how that anxiety would arise with items like the Alltrack USA’s speed detector that sends alerts to parents every time the teen exceeds the speed limit: a mile an hour over and your parents are on your case. The same goes for baby monitors, particularly when used with older children. Any small mistake or childhood mischief is seen (and ideally to many parents, stopped before it occurs). This undermines independence because an adult is always right there. Parents can hear children’s requests from miles away, they can intervene in arguments, and children don’t learn to cope. Children are stunted because the normal experimentations of childhood and adolescence are unavailable. | >
> | Researchers of parent surveillance technology have concluded that surveillance devices such as baby monitors and internet trackers decrease autonomy and stunt development, the same risks seen in helicoptering generally. Helicopter parenting is linked to prolonged adolescence, anxiety, dependence, and other poor outcomes. Children with helicopter parents become terrified of making mistakes. It is easy to see how that anxiety would arise with items like the Alltrack USA’s speed detector that sends alerts to parents every time the teen exceeds the speed limit: a mile an hour over and your parents are on your case. The same goes for baby monitors, particularly when used with older children. Any small mistake or childhood mischief is seen (and ideally to many parents, stopped before it occurs). This undermines independence because an adult is always right there. Parents can hear children’s requests from miles away, they can intervene in arguments, and children don’t learn to cope. Children are stunted because the normal experimentations of childhood and adolescence are unavailable. | | | HARM ON THE FAMILY | | | In terms of peeping Toms or peeping companies/governments, the law can punish peeping on baby monitors and the like as well as further outlawing the use of children’s data from phone tracking, baby monitors, etc. For some spy devices, regulation of IoT devices would help. The ability to sue companies for leaking might help as well. | |
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A great improvement resulted from the choice among themes, as I had hoped.
It doesn't seem likely that legislation will prohibit the making of particular devices, nor that a cluster of net-connected sensors called a "baby monitor" will in the end be separable from all the other forms of sensor that the Internet of Shit/Things will contain. Does one prohibit refrigerators as spy devices? Or try to prevent Internet-connected refrigerators? (In this and other categories of home appliances, it is getting much more difficult to acquire non-Internet versions.
So perhaps it would be possible to strengthen the next draft by proposing measures, collective or individual, that are possible.
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