Australia: app available that tracks minors' mobile phones
The release of an application that allows monitoring of minors.
Rawdon Messenger, head of Teensafe, the company that owns the app, who is in Australia ahead of the launch of the app in the country, argues that "parents should treat their children's digital lives just like their real presence. It is the right and duty of parents to know certain things" and notes that security is more important than privacy.
The police, however, emphasize that the use of such software, which turns parents into "big brothers" who monitor everything, poses other risks, most importantly the loss of trust on the part of children, who react when they feel that their parents are spying on them.
Police Inspector John Roose says the role of parents is to have a loving, caring and trusting relationship. “The key word is ‘trust’,” he says, adding that he deleted the app from his phone, feeling uncomfortable monitoring his daughter’s communication, which, he says, gave him the opportunity to help her overcome a bullying problem she was facing.
Source: defencenet.gr
