>Being socially excluded was the bane of my life in school, and I'll be damned if I'm going to be a contributing factor to my child becoming a pariah.
As someone who had similar experiences, thanks for letting your children be in control of at least some part of their lives. You're doing the good thing.
While this may backfire, I would say installing tracking software on the phone, then doing many subtle things which gives this away, would be an awesome learning experience.
"Creepy?! What? Google, Facebook, etc do it. What's wrong?"
I feel like hacking the phones of parliamentarians, then setting up a website showing their daily activities, would be excellent.
Double effective if it just keeps happening, even when you say you'll stop, no matter how often they reset or reconfigure the phone.
Nah definitely not. Privacy is important. When you give your data to Google, you're one in a billion database entries. Google doesn't care what porn you're searching, they care about selling you stuff. A real human being, someone close to you, knowing what you are doing on your phone is something completely different
As someone who had similar experiences, thanks for letting your children be in control of at least some part of their lives. You're doing the good thing.