Category Archives: Parenting

Children have a right to privacy

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

The latest proposal from David Cameron’s ‘Advisor on Childhood’, Claire Perry, is that parents should ‘snoop’ on their children’s texts. Apparently it’s ‘bizarre that parents treat youngsters’ internet and mobile exchanges as private’, as reported in the Daily Mail. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Rights, Parenting, Privacy | 12 Comments

It’s about the children…

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

The Jimmy Savile story has provoked a huge amount of reaction – revulsion, disgust, anger, frustration, and great many attempts to find someone or something to blame. One of the biggest questions being asked is why we didn’t find out … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Rights, Parenting, Savile, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Will the government ‘get’ digital policy?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

I had an interesting time at the ‘Seventh Annual Parliament and Internet Conference’ yesterday – and came away slightly less depressed than I expected to be. It seemed to me that there were chinks of light emerging amidst the usually … Continue reading →

Posted in broadband, Copyright, Cyberlaw, Defamation, Digital Economy Act, Facebook, Identity, Parenting, Piracy, Privacy, surveillance | 7 Comments

The myth of technological ‘solutions’

Posted on July 6, 2012 by

A story on the BBC webpages caught my eye this morning: ‘the parcel conundrum‘. It described a scenario that must be familiar to almost everyone in the UK: you order something on the internet and then the delivery people mess … Continue reading →

Posted in data retention, Identity, Parenting, Privacy, surveillance | 8 Comments

Safe…. or Savvy?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

What kind of an internet do we want for our kids? And, perhaps more importantly, what kind of kids do we want to bring up? These questions have been coming up a lot for me over the last week or … Continue reading →

Posted in Identity, Internet, Parenting, Porn, Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Doin’ it for the kids?

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

I was watching CBBC with my daughter this morning – waiting for the wonderful Horrible Histories to begin – when on came ‘Newsround’, the children’s news programme. On it there was a short item that sent chills down my spine: … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting, Privacy | 16 Comments

Privacy, Parenting and Porn

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

One of the stories doing the media rounds today surrounded the latest pronouncements from the Prime Minister concerning porn on the internet. Two of my most commonly used news sources, the BBC and the Guardian, had very different takes on … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Watch Foundation, Parenting, Porn, Privacy | 2 Comments