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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids’ phones can backfire.

Source MIT Technology Review Story Brief Updated 57m ago
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Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids’ phones can backfire. Online safety experts say there’s a better way. Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-­mile dirt road.

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