Chapter 18. Engaging in Your Own Surveillance: Tracking Your Children’s Online Activity

The Internet contains an almost limitless supply of information on its billions of web pages; likewise, the Internet’s social networks, blogs, and forums provide an opportunity to communicate and form communities with new friends from all around the globe. But with all this valuable information and interaction comes some degree of offensive content and inappropriate communication—or at least offensive to and inappropriate for the youngest members of your family.

Even if just a small percentage of the Internet is unsuitable for children, that still leaves millions of individual pages and profiles that feature sexual, violent, and hateful content. How do you protect ...

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