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Why tracking our kids could cross privacy line

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29.12.2023

Would you use an Apple AirTag to monitor your child? Under what circumstances? What about a smartphone app like Life360? Would you tell them they were being tracked?

Those questions jump out of a recent court case in which a woman used an AirTag to monitor the movement of her toddler, who was staying with her ex-husband.

Her ex-husband claimed the AirTag, hidden in their child’s stuffed toy, was aimed at following him, in contravention of a family violence restraining order he had filed.

The charges were recently dismissed, after the woman told the court her child was the reason for the AirTags because they were a “bit of a runaway’’.

Her lawyer expressed surprise that a parent could be prosecuted over a tracking device because, he said, it was both common and not illegal.

He’s right. Away from that court case, tracking tweens and teens has become a parental pastime, enabled by smartphones and new technology that allows accuracy in pinpointing a person and what they are doing on the other side of the globe.

But is tracking your child recommended? Or does it risk breeding distrust?

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