To fret about our offspring is only proper. Particularly in this modern age with all the potential risks and new avenues of communications made possible by the Internet. It is also quite understandable that sundry parents are wishing to, in one manner or another, monitor their little darling’s activities in the electronic sphere.
Myriad applications and other forms of programming have arisen to meet the call. First it was made possible to track one’s children by using the location services on their cellphone. Then to monitor what they viewed on it. One clever clogs has even devised a way in which parents can install an application onto their own devices, which will not only monitor activity on that of their children but also allow them to discontinue, remotely mind you, any further use of an application or website the child may have visited that the parents don’t like the look of. Whether or not they actually know what it is. Control over Internet use Vladimir Putin can only dream about.
Though there is, as always, a built-in weakness, an Achilles heel if you will, to all such attempts at electronic monitoring and control. Which is the statistically high amount of experience and cunning acumen so many of today’s sprogs have in terms of digital devices. There were, and continue to be, youngsters starting up their own technology enterprises, as well as foiling sophisticated digital security systems. Sometimes as trainees for the Cyber Securities industry, as well as for less altruistic, though not necessarily nefarious purposes. Julian Assange was in high school when he was first convicted of exposing classified files.
So, it is perfectly possible, if not likely, that any one of the youth of today would be capable of not only detecting but also thwarting such attempts at monitoring them. Or, if they do not, they will more than likely have a friend who does.
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