This seems pretty alarmist. More than ever parents know where their children are(I don't think its a good thing).
To me it didn't seem all that alarmist, but probably because I recognized it as reference to a bump that FOX affiliate stations run, a narrator asks "Its 10 PM, do you know where your children are?" over the 2200 station ID.
I can imagine the kind of parent that would implement a family "location services policy". It's the same kind that ...
Apparently you can't imagine that kind of parent correctly. My father was an IBM-er back in the day, and when we got dailup at home he spent a bit of time explaining to my siblings and me how to be smart on the internet, and part of that was a "location policy" (pretty cut and dry, because back in the AOL days basically all he had to say was: don't tell anyone where you live). They didn't spyware the shit out of my computer, they were surprisingly hands off, to the point that months passed between my switching to linux and their noticing the computer looked different.
The world is not such a frightening place. Let's not make it one.
For an article that basically boils down to "make sure your kid knows what their phone is doing", I don't think its all that frightening of a piece. Seems like solid advice.
To me it didn't seem all that alarmist, but probably because I recognized it as reference to a bump that FOX affiliate stations run, a narrator asks "Its 10 PM, do you know where your children are?" over the 2200 station ID.
I can imagine the kind of parent that would implement a family "location services policy". It's the same kind that ...
Apparently you can't imagine that kind of parent correctly. My father was an IBM-er back in the day, and when we got dailup at home he spent a bit of time explaining to my siblings and me how to be smart on the internet, and part of that was a "location policy" (pretty cut and dry, because back in the AOL days basically all he had to say was: don't tell anyone where you live). They didn't spyware the shit out of my computer, they were surprisingly hands off, to the point that months passed between my switching to linux and their noticing the computer looked different.
The world is not such a frightening place. Let's not make it one.
For an article that basically boils down to "make sure your kid knows what their phone is doing", I don't think its all that frightening of a piece. Seems like solid advice.