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Thoughts on Privacy

crjeder

An interesting research paper about security vs. privacy. It is about securing the home through "smart" internet connected locks and how it could allow parents to spy on their teenage kids. When the kids circumvent the system in order to regain privacy security is even lower than with a "old-school" solution.

It is relevant to this project because very similar audit logs are produced by the smart key hooks. The information smart key hooks collect is "text-only" which is better accepted by the studies participants than a photo log. The papers authors suggest to reduce the "visibility of the logs":

One way to reduce the visibility of logs is to make the log accessible only on a website (“pull” access), rather than through automatic notification (“push” access)

and:

Another approach to making information less visible without necessarily reducing utility is to present less granular logs. For instance, a teenager who pushes an 11:00 PM curfew would prefer a log that says the teen arived [sic] home “around 11 PM,” as opposed to at “11:13:42 PM.”

That's something worth to consider.

  • in reply to crjeder

    Good luck.

    It will be a whole new world by then.

  • in reply to mcb1

    I am awaiting the discussions as my children are pre-teen image

  • in reply to crjeder

    Back in the days when the "half past" rule was in place we didn't have cellphones, pagers or the internet. image

    So yes mum had to be home ...

     

    We didn't really have the problem as we live in the country, but knowing your child has come home safely is a parenting thing.

    We explained why it was important to text us when they got home (if we were out), so we pre-established the trust.

     

    Now they live in town and do their own thing ...and occasionally we hear from them.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    The paper I cited suggest that parents should not want and / or try to monitor their children more granularity just because they easily can. The Mum in your example herself had to be at home at least "have past" to be able to check. Nowadays parents can / could / think the can control their children from the comfort of their smart phone from every where more densely than ever.

    All technical issues aside this can also ruin parent - child trust relationship.

    If I (or somebody else) really would consider to use the smart key hooks this is something to consider.

  • There will always be someone working out a way to beat the system.

    The old punch clocks always had someone shifting the card for someone else.

     

    The curfew is either a pass or fail, so it doesn't matter how it's presented.

    When it comes to an argument, then the actual time is relevant ...image

     

    I once went out with a girl and her mother said "Be home by half past".

    The question was always which half past, and there never was the reply.

     

    Looking back Mum only had to check every hour at half past ...very clever.

     

    Mark