Company caught wiretapping your kids’ IM chats
Boing Boing alerted us to a flagrant instance of shady design practice: an Internet child-protection software program that secretly monitors and sells kids' IM conversations to market research companies.
Here’s one for the books (and for the DLB taxonomy of unethical designs). According to a recent AP article, parents who install Sentry and FamilySafe brand software to monitor their children’s online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children’s instant messages, and sell gathered marketing data from them.
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The rest of this post writes itself.
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